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Article: De la Cruz gets hero's welcome
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- Filipino Reporter
- Article date:
- July 29, 2004
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Filipino Reporter
07-29-2004
Angelo de la Cruz arrived home to a hero's welcome Thursday as Manila
started to feel the diplomatic cost of the decision to withdraw its troops
from Iraq to save him from beheading by militants.
Close to tears and looking tired and worn, De la Cruz wore a shirt printed
with the words "Ako ay Filipino" on the front and "To work is honorable" on
the back.
His long hair tucked under a baseball cap, the 46-year-old was embraced by
his seven children when he disembarked at the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport (NAIA).
The Gulf Air flight which brought in De la Cruz, his wife Arsenia, his
youngest brother Jesse, and government officials planed in at 1:40 p.m.
from Dubai.
In a ...