Mr. Speaker. take the scales of justice in your hands. balance them with a question. Do you hold unworthy of naturalization the countryman. brother. cousin. father of the Filipino who fought under the American flag to hold the Philippines for an Amdrica that had not yet given him the independence he so desired? Can you deny the right of citizenship to the countryman. brother. cousin. father of that boy who fought shoulder to shoulder with your own son on Bataan. who shared your boys handful of rice. his slice of rotten meat. his stinking pit of a foxhole that held a humanity greater than both because it was shared? That was the best America could offer that Filipinoon Bataan.
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