Shattered dreams
| HE SAYS |
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| Aldrin Cardon |
I dreamed of becoming a soldier when I was young.
I also wanted to write. So, I made my dream complicated by dreaming of becoming a soldier and a war chronicler at the same time.
I did not realize that wars then were different from those of Vietnam and Korea, just two or three decades before I was born. Yet they were fading from the world’s memory as my youth was chilling with the cold war, or was busy creating their own punk statement while the rest was following the fashion of Aga Muhlach’s Bagets.
The Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in Baguio seemed a far and unreachable place.
For us, high school dreamers, it meant two years of long and arduous preparation..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110228com6.html
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