The Filipino government did it’s part for its soldiers decades ago. Until today, and to the best of my knowledge, the US never has.
IMHO, this is less about paying those that helped evict the Japanese and more about paying for all the rescued and protected airmen and soldiers as well as those Filipino troops that tried to keep US troops alive in the Bataan death march and subsequent internment. Review your WW2 history, specifically the Filipino campaigns.
My great uncle survived Bataan, thank you. I am very familiar with WW2 history/
They were allies, I am just missing the point of why the US has to pay them?
Makes no sense to me.
If that is true, why don’t the British and French pay for US pensions? They honor our dead and give us airspace, but as far as I know, my uncles and grandfather got no check in British pounds or Euros, or even French francs, prior to the conversion...
The Japanese did the invading, why not tax them with war reparations?