{"id":219948,"date":"2019-06-23T04:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219948"},"modified":"2019-06-23T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T08:33:12","slug":"army-honors-veteran-actor-eddie-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/23\/army-honors-veteran-actor-eddie-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Army honors veteran actor Eddie Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219949\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64971493_2292998110948734_7050215780188684288_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219949\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64971493_2292998110948734_7050215780188684288_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64971493_2292998110948734_7050215780188684288_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/64971493_2292998110948734_7050215780188684288_n-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Army honors Eddie Garcia on his memorial service (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/photos\/pcb.2292998560948689\/2292998097615402\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/\">Philippine Army\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Philippine Army (PA) troopers stood vigil during the memorial service of the late Eddie Garcia, veteran and multi-awarded actor and former Philippine Scouts member, which was held at the Heritage Park, Taguig on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The PA condoles with the family of the late Eddie Garcia. We admire him not only as an actor but as a fellow comrade in arms,\u201d Army spokesperson, Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis desire for his ashes to be scattered on the Manila Bay speaks of his love of the noble profession of arms, despite his short-lived military career. He is an inspiration and an example that one does not have to be a soldier in order to serve the country,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from troops standing at vigil, the PA also laid the national flag next to Garcia&#8217;s remains in recognition of his roots in the Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was only 19 when he volunteered to be part of the Philippine Scouts which was deployed to Okinawa, Japan during the World War II.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His deployment ceremony was held in Luneta, that was why he wished his ashes to be scattered in Manila Bay,&#8221; shared Erwin S. Garcia, the last living son of the actor.<\/p>\n<p>The actor was open about his past aspiration to be a soldier and actively supported various initiatives of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).<\/p>\n<p>He was an avid shooter, participating in annual shooting competitions hosted by the AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia passed away on Thursday (June 20) after being in a coma for 12 days. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia suffered a neck cervical fracture while shooting a TV series for GMA Network on June 8 and had been in critical condition since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Philippine Army (PA) troopers stood vigil during the memorial service of the late Eddie Garcia, veteran and multi-awarded actor &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16,46,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-news","category-entertainment-ph","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219950,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219948\/revisions\/219950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}