MANILA, April 8 -- President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will lead the commemoration of Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) at Mount Samat National Shrine in Bataan on Wednesday.

It will be the centerpiece event of Philippine Veterans Week, according to the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office (PVAO) on Tuesday.

In a Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon interview, Assistant Secretary Domingo Carbonell Jr., PVAO deputy administrator for operations, said Marcos will be joined by Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., the ambassadors of the United States and Japan, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., and other government officials in a wreath-laying ceremony to honor Filipino and American soldiers who fought in World War II in the 19...