No goodbye for the general

Today is the turnover ceremony for the Southern Luzon Command (SolCom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. will bow out as the commanding chief and pass on the baton to the incoming commander, Maj. Gen. Bartolome Vicente Baccaro, Philippine Army commander, 2nd Infantry Division.

I have had good enough occasions of getting familiar with the outgoing commander such that if only because of my instincts as a film director, I should give vent to my predilection to bombast and bravura to portray his person in epic proportion, which I believe he deserves.