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Memorial Day, which is celebrated on the last Monday of May in the United States, may not be a national holiday here but it is celebrated at the 61.5-hectare, sobering but serenely beautiful Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. It is the largest of 26 cemeteries and 29 memorials, monuments and markers in 16 countries built and administered by the American Battle Monuments Commission , both in area and number of graves, and the only overseas American cemetery in the Pacific.
The memorial had its beginnings 75 years ago when, on April 1, 1948, right after the war, the Philippine government granted the US permission to establish a memorial cemetery on the site of Fort McKinley . Designed by American Architect Gardener A. Dailey, construction started soon after but the cemetery was only dedicated, more than a decade later, on December 8, 1960.Within the cemetery are 17,206 graves of soldiers killed during World War II.
Above is an unnamed, tall and graceful female figure scattering flowers in memory of the heroic dead, decorated with mosaic on a predominantly blue background. In front of the tower, on a wide terrace, are two large hemicycle structures, each with 24 pairs of fin walls. Across, from the parking lot, is the Memorial Visitors’ Center, opened in 2019.
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