The 21-Gun-Salute
In very rare moments in my life as a lawyer and as a human being, I never almost go to funerals.
The reason is simple.
I cherish more the lives of people I associate with than spare moments of grief when my friends come to pass or die.
But these rare moments had exceptions of their own. Last Saturday, the 14th of June 2008 was one of them.
I attended the burial of my good friend Congressman Danilo Lagbas to witness the singular opportunity of accompanying a good man to his grave and see his casket lowered to the depths of the earth of the high noon when the Lords of the Sun would have given justice to his last wishes to pass from this world into the realm of the unknown.
But my attendance in the burial of Danny Lagbas is just a ceremony. Just like the procedures that ended with the 21-Gun Salute was just a commemoration of the life of a person who died in the line of duty and made the reputation of his family so complete.
Danilo Lagbas was an upright man. Simple in his ways and humble in his actuations. I first met him when I was 28 years old and he died when I was 44. The span of 16 years was more than a realization because we have stood in more than a couple of times in different political spectrums but maintained friendship and respect all along the way. And the only reason for this is that Danilo Lagbas was a respectable man.
Never had the man taken a personal spite against me nor had he spoken any ill word in the political turmoil that we had gone thru. In fact, in his last birthday we drank beer with Bingo Alcordo in his house in Cagayan de Oro City relishing the goodness that life has brought upon him, without realizing that it would be his last birthday celebration.
In his burial ceremony last Saturday, I cannot help but shed a tear for a man who lived a life of dignity and pride, of sincerity and honesty, of dedication to family and friends, and of apparent and inarguable loyalty to public service.
In his passing through his life, I dedicate the 21-Gun-Salute to the man who has proven that life is not a matter of who has been but to the mission that the man has served humanity to the best that he can.
To my friend Danny Lagbas I write this column as a memento of who he was and who he shall be to the people he had served so well until the noon time of Saturday when we all witnessed and heard the final 21-Gun-Salute.
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