MARLEN V. RONQUILLO
For men of a certain age, who grew up at a time when the most famous call was “Serve the people,” these questions linger, dredging up what remains of the dying embers of the idealism of their earlier lives: “Will the selflessness and humanity of peasant lawyer Ben Tarug Ramos, ambushed by cowards in Kabankalan City on November 6, die in one brief news cycle? That the grief over the end of his heroic life will forever be confined to his small PDG (Paghidaet sa Kauswagan Development Group) compound?