Integrity Rewarded

Just in time for the Holy Week and a refreshing news for the country weary from hearing and reading news about politicians and government officials embezzling public funds. It seems that there are still honest men and women in uniform (too bad that their stories don't make it to the headlines, much less the frontpage). Click the link below to read about a poor police officer's integrity.

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=72269

If I were a billionaire, I'll send Inspector Pedro Velasco's sons to college (who could not afford to send them to school because of his meager pay) and pay off his debts in gratitude for refusing a hefty bribe from an alleged big-time smuggler and slapping the smuggler with additional bribery charges. May your tribe increase, sir! As for that smuggler, I won't mind if he is turned into organic fertilizer as punishment.

A Tribute to the Battling Bastards of Bataan

April 9th was the day that Allied Forces laid down their arms on the blood-soaked peninsula of Bataan after months of holding off numerically superior Japanese forces without air and naval support. Collectively known as the "Battling Bastards of Bataan", the doomed men and women fought disease and starvation and dodged enemy bullets and bombs in an epic battle that tested the limits of the human spirit.
It is only fitting that these men and women be remembered for the uncommon valor that they have displayed in Bataan. If America produced its Greatest Generation during the Second World War, the Philippines only produced its bravest generation of fighting men. To these men, I offer my salute.