Rizal Philippines | August 26, 2014
Yesterday we celebrated the National Heroes Day. It was to be noted for dead heroes. The late renegade Gen Patton of WW II, one of the winningest general in Europe once said - "It is foolish to die fighting for your country; you have to kill the damn bastards." Or that we must honor more the man who lived and came back.
Should we honor more the dead heroes? Isnt it a lost cause? Or we should honor those who are alive and who patiently fight the day to day battles.
Or yesterday's heroes, but today's villains? Our ideas and concepts of heroes change overnight. Popularity and plurality counts as to who will be heroes.
Take for example Gen J Palparan. He was considered a hero during GMA time in counter insurgency campaign. Now he is a criminal.
We should focus more on living heroes. Men and women, teachers, laborers who faithfullly do their jobs to get this nation moving forward. The dead heroes should not die in vain in the dead of the night, but inspire us to work together as a nation, to be better and more properous
