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CAMP GEN EMILIO AGUINALDO, Quezon city (DWDD) - The local parish of Balangiga in Eastern Samar is set to receive the three historic church bells on 15 December 2018, from the Department of National Defense (DND) through a transfer ceremony to be led by President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Secretary of National Defense Delfin N. Lorenzana....
After 117 years, the bells taken by American troops in the 1901 Philippine-American War as war trophies will return to their final home. On behalf of the Diocese of Borongan, Bishop Crispin Barrete Varquez will receive the bells from the DND, represented by Secretary Lorenzana. Among the guests to witness the transfer are United States Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Yong Kim and Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles.
On 11 December 2018, US Department of Defense turned over the bells to the Philippines, culminating the decades-long return process involving numerous initiatives and negotiations between the governments of the Philippines and the US. Two of these bells were housed for more than a century at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, while the other was placed at Camp Red Cloud in South Korea.
After the turnover from the US, the Balangiga bells were displayed for public viewing from 11 to 13 December 2018, at the Philippine Air Force (PAF) Aerospace Museum in Colonel Jesus Villamor Air Base, Pasay City. The bells will depart on board a PAF C-130 plane from Pasay City at about 6:00AM on Friday, 14 December 2018, and are estimated to arrive in Guiuan, Eastern Samar at 8:30AM. These will then be transported by land from Guiuan to Balangiga, which will approximately take two hours. The long-awaited repatriation ceremony will be held the day after, on Saturday, 15 December 2018, at 3:00PM. DND PAS / MCAG
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