Remembering the University of the Philippines (UP) never fails to evoke in me nostalgic memories of events and circumstances that are now remote and irrecoverable. My UP episode began in 1948 when I graduated from Rizal High School, Pasig, Rizal.
I enrolled as an 18-year-old Foreign Service freshman at UP on Padre Faura Street, Manila. After [...]
You’ve gone ahead,
Left us behind;
Farewell dear friend.
You’ve gone through wars,
Won many battles;
Farewell dear friend.
You’ve been a good teacher,
You’ve taught us as well;
Farewell dear friend.
You’ve been a good brother,
We’ll miss your presence;
Farewell dear friend.
You’ve done your job,
You’ve earned your rest;
Now you’re on God’s breast.
Farewell Brod Ben.
The old cadet comes home. Once again he walks the fields and the corridors of his youth. Familiar faces bring shenanigans shared. And memories of standing shoulder to shoulder, yet not seeing eye to eye. He hopes to fill himself with the past, but will leave with even a greater void. Unless-
Unless he can give [...]
As the semester comes to a close, every cadet looks back with the air of a conqueror as he tries to recall once more the events that made this semester what it was. As he racks his memory, he invariably visualizes the happy as well as the unhappy events, sometimes, but more often than not, [...]
Introduction
One of the distinct features of our armed forces is that our officer corps and the soldiery come from all segments of society, unlike in some countries where they are drawn from one social group. We can thus regard our armed forces as the “armed forces of the people,” a term enshrined in the 1935 [...]
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