The Filipino Soldier

morning people! random yet inspiring post coming at ya. :)

i thought of posting this cause while i was singing I'll Be by Edwin McCain i remembered how back in high school whenever i sang this song, i always got the chorus part wrong. cause instead to shoulder i would always say soldier. teehee

♫ i'll be your crying soldieeeeerrr ♫

 LMAO! ^_^

enihu, so because of the word soldier, i remembered my old oratorical piece. t'was really short but the meaning is great. here are the parts that i can still remember. :))

The Filipino Soldier

"If you fix your eyes upon the pages of history, you will come across the name of the soldier. His vocation is fraught with the splendor of nobility. He has no parallel in the annals of human achievements. Monuments, have been erected to his memory to perpetuate in the hearts of grateful nations a noble legacy.

History hardly records his valiant deeds in the fields of battle. The world knew little of his suffering before the cruel miasma of death. He is the fruition of the prayer of a race once shrouded in the gloom of martyrdom. He is the incarnation of a nation's ideal suppressed for eternity. 

He does not have the selfish ambition of Julius Caesar. He does not have the lust power of Alexander the Great. He does not have the imperial greed of Napoleon Bonaparte. He rises, radiant and resplendent, blessed by holy cause and holding high the Torch of Liberty.

He is the hero who stands for freedom. He know his responsibilities to his country and to his God."