Yesterday was a holiday in Manila. Which meant Randy was off! We had a great day. We met friends for brunch in Makati at 9:30. They have a 20 month old so they understand that when you’re up at 6am, brunch happens at 9:30.
Then some of us got to sneak in a little treat!
We had dinner next door at a friend’s house at 5:30 but by 3:30 we were all feeling a little stir crazy. An air purifier can only provide so much entertainment.
So we decided to walk over to the American Cemetery. We can see it from our window and have been meaning to go. Seeing as it’s not even five minutes away it’s really embarrassing it’s taken us this long to get there.
View of the cemetery from our window
It is really beautiful. There are graves going around in circles and in the middle a grassy path that leads up to the center. In the center there is an circle of grass and lists of names of people engraved on columns. There are 17,206 graves in this cemetery, which apparently is the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II. It holds soldiers from the Philippines and other allied nations as well as the US. It’s located in the middle of the city but is very peaceful.
Some of us couldn’t be contained in our stroller and wanted to be free to run!
The center was great and had a huge open grassy space which was perfect for Adam to run around in and explore.
It turns out that yesterday was the Day of Valor and that was why Randy was off. This day is to commemorate the heroism of Filipinos and American Soldiers when the Japanese occupied the Philippines during World War II. So it was pretty fitting that we ended up at the American Cemetery.
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