Our nation and our people demand from us the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP - the very best that we can give.  By the pledge we all make when we join the Boy Scouts, we are all committed "On our honor to doing our best, to doing our duty to God and to our country" and to our fellowmen.  If we all try to live according to the high standards of our Scout Oath, we will be pursuing the ideals that will make us heroes.  We do not have to look very far if we want to find examples of true heroes. We find them within our own ranks, within the ranks of the BSP.

    The Scouting Movement has always inspired heroism among our young people, a heroism that in many cases is too quickly forgotten.  Real life heroes can sometimes appear to us as all too common, a mere news story.  For example, who among us remembers Scout Sajid S. Bulig who gave his life in rescuing victims of the Fluvial tragedy in Bocaue, Bulacan?  Who remembers Scouts Florencio Agapito and Robin Garcia in Cabanatuan City who died while trying to save children from a school building devastated by a killer quake?  Who remembers Scout Aris Canoy Espinosa from Lanao del Norte who gave his life shielding other children with his body from a grenade blast?

    And who can forget the group of 24 Scouts the most revered names in Philippine Scouting today, who perished in a plane crash while on their noble mission the represent our country in the 11th World jamboree in Greece in 1963.

    They are all true heroes, who reflect what is best and most noble in the Filipino spirit, but how quickly we forget them. These young people, by giving their lives for their fellowmen, chose the road less travel path of heroes, and walked in the footsteps of some of our national heroes who scarified their lives so that our nation might live.

 
 
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