Death
General Lim was executed by firing squad in the Manila Chinese Cemetery for Guerilla Activities on the 31st of December 1944 and is listed among the Tablets of the Missing at Manila National Cemetery.
"Lim believed that this nation's strength depends on its national character, that patriotism is a moral quality that must be possessed by all, and that the will to fight makes every citizen a true soldier." — Remarks delivered by then U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Joseph A. Mussomeli for the Opening of Military Exercise Balikatan 2005 – February 21, 2005
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