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Dear darlingest Annelies Marie,

Hello, my darling purrrincess.

Preserving the National Good Will

The daily paper at the center reported on Thursday a certain incident of disrespect to the national anthem of the Republic of the Philippines, "Lupang Hinirang."

Apparently a few US soldiers failed to recognize in their own uniforms the universal dignity of all anthems, standards and symbols that represent any one particular endeavor of Country, something which all standing national military forces who are especially and legitimately entrusted by each their own nations with these timeless traditions should commonly recognize and universally respect above all. It was reported in that paper that they wilfully and conspicuously failed to stop in recognition of this while our anthem was being sung in ceremony.

My first instinct was one of sheer disdain. However, whether it was actual contempt for our anthem or an ignorance of what is common military tradition, it is supremely easy to categorize all US forces, past, present, and future, to be this way - arrogant - but is it the right thing to do, my Anne?

No it is not. Because we can not act in like manner.

First of all, it is not the ideal of the US military to be either ignorant or contemptuous of any such national standards nor is it in keeping with any of their finest traditions. Nor ours, my darling. It is not the business of any national military force to knowingly subscribe to those lineages that serve to defeat their very reason to exist.

The unbecoming actions of a few can not be allowed to undo the good will that exists between both our nations nor can these random actions be allowed to continue to dilute the hard-won spirit of the alliance that exists between our military forces; a timeless friendship forged in battle and blood.

Those who matter, my love, past, present, and future, are really and truly the only reasons we must each persevere in this friendship and good will in all our levels of Country. Because we can only really choose our friends.

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Our 15th President, my darling, is a single person with about 92 million sons and daughters: The work of building a better Philippines is something we must all do together - the responsible state alone can not advance the cause of the Republic nor the nation alone govern and preserve itself without the responsible state nor the common market alone foster and become built without an effective partnership between the two.

So PNoy, God bless him, will be delivering his first SONA later this afternoon, my love. It is something I know that whole nation will not miss. I along with my mom and my step dad certainly won't.

More later, my Miyang...

Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless us all.

Prosper the Peace. Prosper the People.

Always to always,

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"Hope says all good things are possible and faith believes it. Bitterness says its impossible and despair believes it."