IT is appropriate and laudable that during yesterday’s commemoration of National Heroes Day, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana seized the opportunity to extol the importance of reviving the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program as a means to instill patriotism among our youth.

The conflation of this national holiday with patriotism among our youth has immense historic and ageless significance.

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