By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 10:56:00 EDT
The Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman sees room for a possible compromise that would pay pensions to some World War II Filipino veterans who served under U.S. command.
Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, the Senate veterans’ committee chairman, has been pushing along with his House counterpart, Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., to provide pensions to about 19,000 veterans who served with the U.S. military as Filipino Scouts and in other roles.
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/10/military_filipinoveterans_pensioncompromise_102108w/
