The Fantastic Four

If you watched the funeral procession of the late President Corazon Aquino, you would have noticed the four honor guards who stood beside the former President’s coffin atop the flatbed trailer truck. The family of former President Corazon Aquino will personally thank and honor the three soldiers and one policeman who stood guard around her casket en route to her interment last Wednesday at August 21, 2009, the memorial day of her husband Ninoy Aquino. The four honor guards stood on the hearse carrying Mrs. Aquino's remains despite of strong winds and rains. They endured almost nine hours of standing by moving their finger and flexing their toes and tasting the rain water to quench their thirst during the funeral procession from the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros to the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City. Wow! Just imagine that.
The family will personally thank Army Private First Class Antonio Cadiente, Airman Second Class Gener Laguindam, Navy Petty Officer 3 Edgardo Rodriguez, and Police Officer Danilo Maalab PNP, who stood at full attention atop a slow-moving flower-decked truck that bore the casket of the former President. The honor guards caught the public’s attention after displaying “discipline" in performing their tasks on the grueling funeral procession without lifting a single finger. I believe these four deserve our thanks. And they humbly say that they did it for the service to President Corazon Aquino and their country. That's why a resolution commending the four honor guards of the late former President Corazon Aquino during the funeral procession will be filed at the Senate were these soldiers were role models of what a public servant should be. They also receive a P25,000 each, a gift courtesy of former senator Agapito "Butz" Aquino, brother-in-law of the late president, and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano.