Ryan Blum, Manila American Cemetery and Memorial superintendent, delivers remarks during the first-ever Repatriation Ceremony held at the cemetery in the Philippines for U.S. personnel who were disinterred there, March 6, 2026. Currently, there are 71,783 U.S. personnel unaccounted for from World War II with approximately 10,000 missing in the Philippines, the largest total for any single country. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Lt. Col. George Tobias)