An old woman, Babu Insih, of Lampaki, Indanan related this to Lunsad:
One day as she was going about her housechores, a military officer knocked at her door. As always, she expected bad news. She mustered all her courage to deal with the officer: either they want information on Abu Sayyaf or they want a pot of rice and some chicken meat. He greeted her very respectfully and asked politely if he and his men may use the school nearby as sleeping quarters. She was so surprised. It’s SOP in the village for military men to just break the door or hack through the wall of school buildings then set camp inside classrooms. The plywood ceiling would normally be ripped so that the Army men could tie the end ropes of their cradles onto the beams. She told the Army officer, he and his men may, if they please.
The next day she was even more surprised. When she passed by the school building, there was no telltale signs of military occupation around the spoken-for vicinity, no litter of garbage, not even a bent grass around the classrooms. And so she went to where the Army officer and his men set tents.
You didn’t use the classrooms? she asked him in her scanty Tagalog.
“Hindi po naman umulan kagabi, Babu.” (But it didn’t rain last night, Grandmother.)
Unu in pikil niyu mga budjang, shall we reward this gallant officer with a Crush ng Bayan Award?
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