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Established in FEBRUARY 2021 BY BERNIE
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OMID’S LIGHT DURING PANDEMIC DARKNESS
This story is inspired by the Valedictory address of Omid Siahmard of Philippine General Hospital (PGH) class 2021. The street vendors outside the PGH gate made him study harder. He bought 6 squid balls for 30 pesos every morning from Aling Marissa. Omid, mabuhay ka, at lahat kayong magiging frontliners na ilaw sa kadiliman ngContinue reading “OMID’S LIGHT DURING PANDEMIC DARKNESS”
THE CHILD GRANDMASTER
This story is inspired by Filipino-American Grandmaster Wesley So, who recently won an award in a chess tournament, and who was himself a Child Grandmaster at the age of 15 in 2009. The youngest Child Grandmaster, as of this writing, was Russian Sergei Kajaski at the age of 12, followed by Norwegian Magnus Carlsen atContinue reading “THE CHILD GRANDMASTER”
SUPER WEAPONS
A Mach-10 Hypersonic Missile has ten times the speed of sound. There will be no time for the entire US Fifth fleet to react in defense. A US Admiral said his carrier fleet would “not be caught like a sitting duck” in the Strait of Hormuz. eastwind journals, September 10, 2021 By Bernie V. Lopez,Continue reading “SUPER WEAPONS”
THE REBEL AND THE NUN
This is inspired by a real situation. Early 70s. Zamboanga del Sur. The town of Dimataling was a “no man’s land” after Christian soldiers and Muslim rebels had been killing each other for a decade. Sister Josephine of the Medical Mission Sisters stayed on to service the health needs of the few brave Christians andContinue reading “THE REBEL AND THE NUN”
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