31.   The Americans left Subic the following year, ending nearly a century of U.S. military presence in this former American colony.

32.   The exhibit explores the significance of scientific instruments in the development of the American colonies and early republic.

33.   The Philippines was once an American colony and host to the largest military bases outside the U.S. mainland.

34.   The U.S. military has always been a sensitive issue in this former American colony.

35.   The U.S. presence has been a sensitive subject because the country was once an American colony.

36.   The training in the Philippines is not new but an expansion of longtime U.S. programs in the former American colony.

37.   The U.S. military presence is a sensitive topic in this former American colony.

38.   The United States then closed its military facilities in the Philippines, ending nearly a century of U.S. military presence in this former American colony.

39.   Which American colonies were the first to win freedom from Britain?