The two military officials
Brigadier General Edwin Leo Torrelavega, and Commander of the V. Luna Medical
Center Colonel Antonio Punzalan, and 18 others involved in questionable deals
worth P17-million are treating their comrades in arms in a manner that is
against traditional values and virtues, or even common sense, and social
standards, leaving them in endless pains. They are no longer humans...humans
have various emotions and desires and live for emotion.
The soldiers put their
fate on these Officers to save them from death and a chance to live longer. But
what did they do? They stashed the money entrusted to them for their personal
gain without compunction whatsoever, unconscionably unperturbed that if their
comrades in arms will die who will be capable enough to step into their shoes
as the head of the family that would take care whoever is left behind.
These AFP Officers should
have known that in them, the poor had solace; in them, the afflicted had
consolation; in them, the down-trodden had hoped; and in them a good companion
to all, irrespective of class or rank. But because of what they have done,
they’re no longer one of the ordinary human beings, and they couldn't even go
back anymore, they really can't. The difference between them and ordinary
people had been downright lost.
How could these officials
turn their backs to the immorality of leaving their soldiers to die in pain?
We, therefore, learn nothing about ourselves if we do not examine this part of
our psyche.
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