On Veterans\u2019 Day, Nov. 11, 2016, Tinian Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas and other island leaders unveiled Tinian\u2019s own Veterans Memorial Park. <\/p>\n
San Nicolas also recognized all Tinian veterans with special mention of Tinian veterans who have passed on. In his opening remarks, he quoted American physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson who said, \u201cA paltry few countries in the history of civilization have gotten to choose their leaders. How lucky we are to be among them\u201d and acknowledged how lucky the United States is to have a military that protects this privilege with valiance, honor, and selflessness. <\/p>\n
San Nicolas also extended his appreciation to the Tinian leadership for their support of Tinian\u2019s veteran community. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe began 2016 by dedicating a veteran\u2019s pavilion as a space for current and former service members to gather in fellowship. In September, the Tinian Mayor\u2019s Office, with the Tan Siu Lin Foundation and Bridge Investment Group, raised almost $2,000 for the fight against [post-traumatic stress disorder] in the CNMI,\u201d said San Nicolas. \u201cToday, I would like to announce that through our supplemental medical assistance program, we will pay for our veterans to go to Saipan for their medical services. At the same time, we are working closely with Delegate [Gregorio] Kilili [C. Sablan (Ind-MP)] as to how Tinian veterans can maximize the services of Veteran\u2019s Affairs. In addition, the Tinian delegation will include in its next local appropriation the inclusion of medical subsistence for Tinian patients who suffer from PTSD.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Tinian\u2019s Veterans Memorial Park was originally built during former mayor Ignacio Quichocho\u2019s administration with the intention of building a leadership memorial. San Nicolas thanked former mayor Quichocho for his role in making the event possible. (PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Veterans\u2019 Day, Nov. 11, 2016, Tinian Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas and other island…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2199,9941,1339,14296],"class_list":["post-240747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bridge-investment-group","tag-ptsd","tag-san-nicolas","tag-veterans-memorial-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240747","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}