The Clark Veterans Cemetery in the Clark Freeport Zone is the final resting place of American military personnel and veterans who served in the Philippines. The cemetery is maintained in the careful, dignified manner typical of American military burial grounds abroad, with rows of white markers on well-tended grass. It is a sobering and quietly moving place, particularly for visitors with family connections to the American military presence in the Philippines.
The cemetery is open to visitors during daylight hours. It sits within a short drive of the main Clark commercial district but feels entirely removed from it. For anyone interested in the history of the American period in the Philippines — the base was established in 1903 and remained active for nearly ninety years — the cemetery offers a human dimension to what is often told as a story of geopolitics and economics.