Heroes Welcome on New Year's Day

New Year, bad timing. I apologize for having a blog backlog this early in the game. We had to support our daughter and her husband in mourning the death of their dear friend Christopher Pantaleon. Hanna’s husband, Sam is a navy officer of the armed forces and Chris, I believe was one of his best friends in the service.Christopher was killed in action during an encounter in Basilan in Mindanao. We sincerely condole with his family, his wife and 2-year old baby boy.

We were at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig very early on New Year’s day to be there for the Heroes Welcome. It was a ceremony to honor the heroism of soldiers who died in battle. It was very unfortunate that we honored 2 brave soldiers that day: LTJG CHRISTOPHER PANTALEON and PO3 Almario Manalili.

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P.S. To at least keep the family together on New Year’s Day, I decided to pack up our New Year’s Lunch to bring to Sam and Hanna’s home in Taguig (we usually celebrate in our house in Laguna) .. we had Arozz ala Cubana (will post recipe soon!) and Buko-Pandan-Lychee Salad. Sam slept through half the lunch but it was still good that we were able to spend time together as a family.