Go beyond words
| NO HOLDS BARRED |
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
Excited for those who were going to be lawyers before her, second-year law student Raissa Laurel, 25, went to the De La Salle University on Taft Avenue on the last day of the Bar exams to greet friends who had taken the four-Sunday tests, perhaps thinking of when she’d go through the hurdle with the same hoopla, the shrieking and crying, the hugging, high-fives and fist bumps. And then, without warning, it happened: A blast from nowhere, that left 44 wounded, most severely Raissa and yet another female law student whose identity remains secret, pending the family’s permission to let it out.
Both of Raissa’s legs were amputated. The unidentified has already lost her left leg; as I write doctors are still trying to save her right leg and left hand.
Dear God in heaven, why? I kept on asking, over and over again. So two fraternities were warring. Why didn’t they among themselves lose limbs and whatever else, considering they didn’t have balls to battle face-to-face with each other, but had to draw innocents in as collateral damage?
I watched the news on TV of how Raissa responded to ABS-CBN news anchor Julius Babao’s questions, through writing. She said she was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” but was thankful for a “second life.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101001com4.html
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