Memorial Day ceremony on Okinawa honors U.S. vets

“Sixty years have passed and on this Memorial Day, in commemoration of those sixty years of peace, we pay homage to the thousands of combatants who gave their lives,” stated the requiem in the ceremony’s program. “But most especially, we pay homage to more than one hundred thousand Okinawan citizens who died in the crossfire, as well as those servicemen who are buried … throughout the world.”

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