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This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Order of Lakandula. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients. The main article for this category is Order of Lakandula .
The Order of Lakandula (Filipino: Orden ni Lakandula) is one of the highest civilian orders of the Philippines, established on September 19, 2003. It is awarded for political and civic merit and in memory of Lakandula ’s dedication to the responsibilities of leadership, prudence, fortitude, courage and resolve in the service of one’s people.
The Vietnam War, (also known as the Second Indochina War, Vietnam Conflict, and in Vietnam as the American War), took place from 1955 to 1975. The war was fought between the Communist-supported North Vietnam and the United States-supported South Vietnam , beginning with the presence of a small number of US military advisors in 1955 and ...
A 2008 study by the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal) came up with a higher toll of 3,812,000 dead in Vietnam between 1955 and 2002. For the period of the Vietnam War the totals are 1,310,000 between 1955 and 1964, 1,700,000 between 1965–74 and 810,000 between 1975 and 1984. (The estimates for 1955–64 are much higher than other estimates).
A war casualty is a military person who is killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of war; or a non-military person killed or wounded (civilian casualties). The term casualty is sometimes confused with the term fatality (death).
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This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Order of Lakandula. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients. The main article for this category is Order of Lakandula .
The civilian Order of precedence, established by the Honors Code of the Philippines, is as follows: [2] The Quezon Service Cross. The insignia of the Order of Lakandula. First Class Rank. Quezon Service Cross (Krus ng Serbisyo ni Quezon) Second Class Rank. Order of Lakandula (Orden ni Lakandula) Order of Sikatuna (Orden ng Sikatuna)