March 25, 2014
Dear Mr. Cudia,
We never met. I entered in PUP two years after your graduation. Maybe by those time you were inside the academy fulfilling your childhood dream to be the best soldier. I understand it is tough fighting windmills and no one knows how this has been so demanding to you and to your family. I wrote you this to tell you that like must of the people out there, I believe in you. I can feel the genuineness in your heart to be the best soldier and it truly saddens me to see that things happen own its way and now we cannot do anything but trust and hope for the best and cling on to the belief that maybe it has a reason, as everything have but sometimes, reasons that we doesn’t know. A midst all these, I urge you to do not loss hope because we don’t.
I am one of hundreds of people who grieved when we heard that you’re not included in the list of graduates. Thinking the struggles you endured for four years inside the academy is nothing but a heroism in itself. You are a hero. And the fact that you waved away building your promising professional career and chose to toil on that camp for years is a selflessness act that we should all salute. After all, they deny you to be a soldier but they can never deny you to be a hero. Being a hero is not limited to being a soldier. In fact a lot of heroes are not and you can still be, without the shadow of PMA. Others who graduated their losses honor and ideals. They are succumbed to the system and they ceased to become a warrior. You’re different because you are fighting and that makes you mightier than them.
As I write this I am thinking on how demoralized our soldiers are in combat at this very moment, how the government has neglected them, how rusty and outdated our secondhand battleships and combat equipment. Sir, your intelligence deserve a better place.
You are gifted, the world is vast and it is waiting for you.Take up Law or pursue career that you love, prove to them that you can stand without them. The time and space of the world is on you. PMA is neither your death nor your life but rather just a part of a memory. This is the beginning of a new life, Sir. Seek those things that will make you happy. Do things that will make you a hero. Do not loss hope.
It has been a good fight. And still is. Heart strong Sir Cudia. HEART STRONG!
Truly yours,
Anthony.
Quezon City, Philippines
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