Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin led in honoring war veterans during a Wreath-laying Ceremony, one of the three kick-off activities of the 2015 Observance of the Philippine Veterans Week.
Gazmin paid
tribute to the country’s defenders by offering a wreath at the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier (TUKS), Sunday, 5 April 2015 at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City
The Wreath-Laying
Ceremony is an institutional way of venerating the memory of Filipino patriots
and martyrs who laid down their lives for the motherland by offering the most
supreme sacrifice of all.
During the
ceremony, war veteran leaders, veteran support institutions, veterans servicing
institutions, and men and women in World War II resistance movements offer
memorial wreaths, followed by youth leaders who represent the hope and the
future of the nation.
Gazmin is a son
of veteran- the late BGen. Segundo L. Gazmin, AFP (Ret.), who served as
an artillery officer in the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
under the 2nd Battalion, 91st Division during World War II.
Earlier, a
Sunrise Ceremony was also held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Libingan ng
mga Bayani. The tradition provides an opportunity for Filipino veterans to
honor their fallen comrades and for the families of these veterans to do the
same.
During the
ceremony, soldiers and civilians, veterans and the youth, gather in the
symbolic event to offer flowers to those who have offered their lives in the
altar of freedom amid the majestic rising of the sun in the horizon that
symbolizes the dawning of a new era of freedom, peace and democracy.
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