PILAR, Bataan: United States Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg honored Saturday the Filipino soldier, who died at the US-PH Balikatan (Shoulder-to-Shoulder) exercises, during the 74th commemoration of Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor).

'This, too, is a tribute to those who lost their lives here and elsewhere in the Pacific,” Goldberg said in a speech during ceremonies held in this town in the Philippines' Central Luzon. He praised the PAF, or Philippine Air Force, paratrooper’s service to the Philippines.