19 comments: IrvingFebruary 5, 2008 at 1:53 PMIs LTC Sardual really a dentist?Reply UnknownApril 19, 2009 at 5:38 AMI remember sayings that go, “The cruelty of war makes for peace.” and “Soldiers do not like being under the command of one who is not of noble birth.”.Reply satur killowaMay 9, 2009 at 4:06 PMhorroble. i […]

Baliktanaw sa Kasaysayan: Feb.12,1981: ‘Pata massacre’ na mahigit 100 sundalo ang namatay Mapait na alaala sa puwersa ng militar ang iniwan ng binansagang “Pata massacre” na naganap sa lalawigan ng Sulu noong 1981 kung saan 119 sundalo ang nasawi sa kamay ng armadong grupo na inakala nilang kakampi. Pebrero 9, 1981 nang magtungo ang mga […]

PACO: As i was reading this blog, i feel goose pimples all over me as one of the 1st responders on the 13th of feb 1981 as a 2Lt then CO of the Charlie Coy, 4IB, IID, PA based in the coastal town of Maimbung Sulu who took over Pata Likud w/c was earlier cleared […]

I will not forget that moment after the massacre. The 1st platoon, Bravo Btry, 1HB, 1AR, 1ID, PA was sent to Pata Island for Artillery Support to 10th Infantry Battalion, We stayed there for 6 months. Being in that place seemingly hard and lonely with scarcity of food and water supply. We just only take […]

PHILIPPINE MILITARY HISTORY: THE 1981 BLOODBATH AT PATA ISLAND… A lot has been said of what happened to the “SAF44” together with all the uproar and overwhelming attention its getting within and outside the country… This dark event in our country’s history “benefited” much from social networking, so its easy for many people to ask […]

CENTRAL COMMAND, CAMP LAPULAPU, CEBU. By: BGEN PHILIP S LAPINID O-9934 AFP, who was a Colonel then… The short eulogy I delivered during the memorial service for my friend, Brigadier General Emilio Somoza Luga, Jr (PMA Class of 1954) on 08 April 2015: We are gathered here tonight to pay homage to a warrior who […]

Bob Rocio re Pata Massacre: The writer of this article should have made a thorough research before publishing it because of some discrepancies in his story. I was the Signal Officer of 1/1 Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry (Tabak) Division when the incident took place at Pata island on Feb 12, 1981. 1. The whole 31 […]

HISTORIC MID-SEA PACT PUTS END TO SULU CLAN WARS By Ma. Teresa Yosores SULU, Philippines – Seven feuding clans, hundreds of lives lost in hostilities and blood sheds for many decades, all in one island in Sulu that smelled of dead people for sometime, according to some people who survived a “chaotic world”. A resolution, […]

I am in shock! OBITUARY | MMDA chairman Danny Lim dies The last time I saw Sir Danny Lim was in June of 2019 when my newly created Cybersecurity company, the Kerberus Corporation, rendered a call to him at MMDA Head Office. During the meeting, he introduce me by saying, “Ito si Jess, isa sa […]