Hafa adai, my fellow veterans, families and friends:
\nFirst of all I want to thank each and every individuals who attended yesterday\u2019s Veterans Day ceremony at the American Memorial Park. Special thanks to all who helped one way or another to make our ceremonial a success: Fr. Francis Hezel (invocation);\u00a0American Red Cross\u00a0(John and Paul) for the water and ice; Nola (printing of programs) from Xerox; Saipan Pacific Winds Concert Band (great job!); the students and staff of Marianas High School\u2019s Chorus;\u00a0DPS police officers\/Capt. Pete DLGuerrero\u00a0for the 21-gun rifle salute; Manta Ray Battalion, Saipan Southern High School, JROTC cadets under the leaderships of SSM J. Kiyoshi and SSM R. Basa; Dr. Ed Tudor of VFW Saipan Post 3457 (Taps);\u00a0CNMI Department of Homeland Security and staff;\u00a0Mayor David Apatang and his staff; director Eli\u00a0Cabrera and his staff; DPW Secretary James Ada and his staff; the staff of the American Memorial Park; Veterans Day Committee chair Jenn C. DLGuerrero, Tony\u00a0L.G. Cabrera, Mariano DLG Fajardo, Mac Chargualaf (commander, VFW, Saipan Post 3457, Bernie Boyer Dela Cruz (my hardworking staff), and most especially the staff of Gov. Eloy S. Inos and Lt. Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, through the leadership of Mrs. Esther S. Fleming.<\/p>\n
This year\u203as Veterans Day ceremony would not have been possible without the help\u00a0of all this agencies and individuals.\u00a0 I\u00a0would also like to\u00a0give\u00a0thanks to all veterans and their families, parents, spouses and children of deceased veterans, thank you for coming! Special thanks to our newly appointed Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, Viola Alapuyo;\u00a0members of the CNMI 19th Legislature; U.S. District Judge Ramona V. Manglona, CNMI Supreme Court Associate Justice John Manglona, CNMI Superior Court Associate Judges David Wiseman, Ken Govendo, and Teresa Kim-Tenorio; officers of the pre-positioned ships; the U.S. Coast Guard, Saipan Municipal Council Alice Igitol, and Mrs. Ruth Coleman of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Your presence meant so much to us. May the good Lord continue to bless us all here in the CNMI and abroad.<\/p>\n
Joseph M. Palacios<\/strong> Hafa adai, my fellow veterans, families and friends: First of all I want to thank…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8158,26,8159,8160],"class_list":["post-214432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-basa-dr","tag-cnmi","tag-ed-tudor","tag-francis-hezel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMilitary Liaison and Veterans Affairs Office\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"