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Peace, the officers, and the Corps

I belong to the generation that crooned: What we are saying is, Give peace a chance! We are on Peace Officers’ Day. Police Week commemorates local, state, and federal peace officers that lost their lives in the line of duty. Law enforcement officers and their families gather in...
Posted On May 15 2015 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Navigating the human experience

I stood in line at the CK Post Office with a colleague who recalled that he resided on island for almost 30 years, more than half of his lifetime. Though he is of Philippine descent—not classified a native indigene by blood—nonetheless he refers to himself as “of Mariana Islands’...
Posted On May 14 2015 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Earth on Mother’s Day

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14 waxed poetic: Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising...
Posted On May 11 2015 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara

Chamorita and Chamorito

In the early ’80s when I resided in Guam, the term Chamorita and Chamorito were somewhat similar to the “dalaginding” or “balasitang” and the male “binarito” in Pilipino, referring to a young, modest, and petite girl, and a strapping sapling of a boy, respectively. It was still...
Posted On May 07 2015 04:00
, By Jaime R. Vergara
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