KALASAG TROOPER HONORED FOR HONESTY

           S7 Section, 5LAB

          PRIDE OF A KALASAG TROOPER. Corporal Eduardo N.Samson (Cav)PA  was awarded the Plaque of Recognition for his outmost honesty in the service (a virtue hardly observed nowadays).

          MAJ JACINTO J LICAY (CAV) PA, Officer-in– Charge of 5LAB personally honored Cpl Samson by giving the Plaque of Recognition as simple way of showing the units gratitude for the exemplary deed. The awarding was done last 27 May at 5LAB Multipurpose Hall, Camp Edilberto P. Evangelista in Cagayan De Oro City.

          THE STORY THUS FAR. On  14 May  2010,  during the swimming competition held at the   swimming pool of 4^th Infantry Division , Cpl Samson found a cellular phone pouch containing  bus tickets and money amounting to Two Thousand One Hundred Pesos(P2,100.00).Without second thought, he immediately announced through the Public Address System regarding the lost and found items. However, even after the competition had been through, no one had come to claim the items that were found.

          On the following day, Cpl Samson coordinated with MAJ CRUEL  (CS), Post Catholic Chaplain of 4ID to announce in his daily  mass regarding the lost and found items. The act was done to let the owner informed. Still, after a week of waiting nobody has come to claim the lost items.

          Instead of keeping the lost items, Cpl Samson decided to donate the money to the Church through MAJ CRUEL, who thanked the Lord not  for the donated amount but for the person who exemplified true essence of honesty. Much more for having a generous heart jibed with the virtue of charity.

          The recognition accorded to Cpl Samson was witnessed by the  organic personnel of 5LAB and their dependents. In his message,  MAJ LICAY  stressed that the commendable act exemplified by Cpl. Eduardo N. Samson is indeed worthy of emulation. The Officer-in-Charge concluded his speech with this thought-provoking statement: “We only live once; but once is enough if we make it right”.

         An honest man deserves to be rewarded; in recognition to his honorable act Cpl Eduardo N Samson together with the Officers and Enlisted personnel of 5LAB  are very much grateful to this noble act.