Our Real Heroes

Just checked the calendar to make sure today isn't the FIRST of April. Well it isn't.

My Reaction:

Ang saya-saya ko for real! Can't stop ROFLing...ha HA hA Ha! I think I'm seriously considering subscribing to the Inquirer for the COMEDY alone.

In a Facebook post, Krizette Laureta Chu wrote her reaction to the Inquirer awarding Jover Laurio (a.k.a Pinoy Ako Blog or PAB) as their "Filipinos of the Year 2017". 'Filipinos'? Basket plural? Dahil ba mataba si Jover? Just asking.

Here is Krizette's FB post:

I’m so sorry to the fallen heroes of Marawi, to their suffering but dignified widows, to the evacuees who are trying to piece together their lives after terrorists attacked their city.

I am so sorry to that group of young Filipino students and delegates who bested other nationalities in the international math competition in Singapore (Singapore, the birthplace of Singaporean style Math, and our kids won.)

Im sorry to Hilary Andales, the student from Philsci Visayas, who brought home P20 million for winning the Breakthrough Challenge for an explainer video on relativity in a global science competition.

Sorry to the Philippine ice hockey team who won a gold medal at the 2017 SEA GAMES. A surprise win, and a very welcome one.

Sorry to Capt. Jeffrey Buada, the Scout Ranger who negotiated the release of women, children, and the injured from the ISIS, crossing enemy lines and risking his life to do so.

I’m sorry to these heroes like Joe Green and his group, who regularly fly out to Marawi to help evacuees. To girls like Kaye Koo, who built a library for the kids there, for everyone who gave a little of themselves to uplift other Filipinos.

Sorry Dr. Rogel Sese, that your tireless efforts to see and create a Philippine Space Agency isn’t enough. Sorry to the OFWs whose remittances have acted as a foil against destabilization efforts and kept the peso stable. Sorry to the honest taxi drivers and service industry people whose small acts of heroism have gone unnoticed. Sorry to the policemen who have risked their lives in service to the nation, despite a besmirched reputation many of you soldier on.

You are, to us, the Filipinos of the Year.

To represent the Filipino as a nation, to deserve the title, you should have brought us pride, gave the country honor, showed us a sliver of hope, helped build the nation, no matter your party affiliation.

Most of all, I am sorry that respected editors think that Jover Laurio, who is none of the above, is the “voice of fact.” She isn’t. It’s not a fact that Lorraine Badoy is retokada, or that we are bayaran.

I am so sorry that some editors we looked up to are so hellbent on destroying the credibility of the administration and its supporters they don’t care for their own credibility, throwing their support blindly behind a person as shady and as dubious as Laurio.

The fight is no longer against fake news, because fake news is easily verifiable–it’s against biased news that serves the interest of a select group of powerful people. It’s against slanted news that chooses to highlight some facts and hides others to present a chosen, curated, self serving view.

The Filipino of the year is the Filipino who came out of their shell to fight to change the status quo that never served them, the status quo that enslaved them for decades, that kept the Philippines in the dark.

The Filipino of the year is the ordinary Filipino who will do anything in his power to go against the desperate but powerful few who will do anything to cling to the fading vestiges of power, including sacrilegiously naming a libelous blogger the “Filipino of the Year,” pretending that she’s an acceptable Mockingjay of some sort.

The 90 percent who are real partners for change, they are the Filipinos of the year. (So you can go shave your back now.)

UPDATE: Anyare? Nagkaroon ba ng change of management ang Inquirer? Di na "Filipinos of the Year" si PAB? HaHaHa! Natauhan ba ang Inquirer? Ano na ngayon si Laurio? "Joke of the Year"?

The blood and the bodies of our REAL HEROES have drenched our soil and enriched our history & our national pride, unlike those so-called "blogging heroes" who are just feeding off the FAT of the LAND, the sacrifices of our fallen heroes and the FREEDOM that we all now enjoy. Yung mga blogging heroes kuno wala namang ginawa kundi MAGPATABA. You know who you are. These bloggers are libelous cowards (they hid their identities until they were exposed) and they're closely linked to a particular jaundiced political party. Some of them are still in hiding.

These are some of our BRAVE FALLEN HEROES, ALL PATRIOTS:

HONOR BEYOND MEASURE

Taga-Pangasinan si Frederick. When he recovered the money from the terr0rists he could have gone home after accomplishing his mission but he chose to stay & fight with his comrades. When TP talked to Frederick's mom at the wake she said, "We are not mourning. We don't want to hear 'condolences'. It should be a 'Congratulations' because we produced a hero." To this hero's parents, our biggest most heartfelt CONGRATULATIONS po sa inyo! To those who sacrificed their lives for us, we will NEVER FORGET your bravery and heroism.

Our RETURNING HEROES fresh off from the war in Marawi...We are so PROUD of YOU!

We salute you, soldiers!

Here are some of the SAF44 heroes:

In honor of the SAF44

Our other heroes, living and dead

Our civilian hero:

Ms. Jandic is the post-graduate medical intern who helped a woman whose arm was severed in an accident at the MRT 3 terminal in Manila. She's a grad from the University of Visayas-Gullas College of Medicine. She applied first aid to Angeline Fernando, who lost her right arm when she fell on the train tracks. She's from Polomolok, Cotabato. She is currently a postgrad medical intern at the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center. A flower shop owner offered to give Jandic a bouquet of flowers and an Uber driver, touched by her heroic act, offered to give her a free ride if she booked him. Strangers visited her account and showered her with well wishes, saying they were proud of her and that they were impressed by her skills. Fernando’s arm was reattached after the accident.

SOURCES: 1. Medical intern in MRT-3 accident receives accolades. (2017). SunStar. Retrieved 19 January 2018, from http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2017/11/17/medical-intern-mrt-3-accident-receives-accolades-575193