The Pasig City local government offered and laid wreaths at the city’s World War II Memorial Monument to honor the veterans and heroes in commemoration of the city’s 78th Liberation Day on Sunday, Feb. 19.
City officials, led by Mayor Vico Sotto, Vice Mayor Robert “Dodot” Jaworski Jr., and the 11th City Council held a short ceremony at the “Pang-alaalang Bantayog” or “Bantayog ng Kagitingan,” located along Caruncho Avenue at around 7:30 a.m.MAYOR VICO SOTTO / MANILA BULLETIN
It marks the day that Pasig, which was previously a town in Rizal Province, was liberated from the Japanese occupation forces, during the Second World War, through the cooperative operations of the Filipino-American militaries and guerilla movements in the nearby provinces.
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