PRESIDENT BS Aquino The Last, I mean, The Third, and his drumbeaters see nothing wrong in ignoring the giving of honors to our fallen heroes when their bodies arrived at Villamor Air Base. Usec Abigail Valte said there was no snob because BS Aquino wasn’t scheduled to be there. Doesn’t that make it even worse? This means that giving honors to them wasn’t even in the radar of Malacanang. The Palace should have apologized for giving higher priority to a business event, but then, apology is never in its mindset.
More than three years back, US President Barack Obama cancelled a scheduled official appointment to give arrival honors to 22 Navy Seals and eight other American soldiers killed in Afghanistan when an insurgent shot down their helicopter. Obama boarded each of the two planes that brought the bodies home and met with the families and fellow soldiers of the dead for about 70 minutes. Ah, but it’s too much to expect BS Aquino to do an Obama.
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