SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao: Love knows no season, and in times of war when combatants face death at every turn lovers pledge their troth even amid enemy fire.

A day before Valentine’s Day, time stood still at the center of the battlefield in the municipality of Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat as Army Corporal Denemer Albani, 27, platoon radioman from Zamboanga City, surprised his longtime girlfriend, Private Christine Porcadilla, 26, platoon combat medic from Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat with a marriage proposal.

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