We, the parents of Allan James Boyer Dela Cruz, who recently passed away, read about what happened to our son in the Saipan Tribune as we were halfway between a city in the U.S. mainland and Tokyo, and we were really surprised and upset.<\/p>\n
As grieving parents of Allan James, we and our families are suffering, and we should have been notified up front about the specifics of this investigation before it was published.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, it was reported that Bernie Dela Cruz is a former Veterans Affairs director; she wasn’t. She was a Veterans Affairs “acting director” for several months, but insisted on not taking the position.<\/p>\n
And to add another unnecessary news, the story about our son, who cannot speak or defend himself, cited a dropped-case of domestic violence.<\/p>\n
P.S.: According to my wife, Bernie Boyer Dela Cruz, there’s no such title as Veterans Affairs director; it should be Veterans Affairs executive officer, and Bernie was the Veterans Affairs acting executive officer for several months.<\/p>\n
Enrique Tamaoki Dela Cruz<\/strong> We, the parents of Allan James Boyer Dela Cruz, who recently passed away, read about…<\/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":[18419,38,545,10200],"class_list":["post-261101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-bernie-dela-cruz","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-tokyo","tag-veterans-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261101","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=261101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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