Still at Libingan ng mga Bayani, we chanced upon a group of nuns who visit this place every year. They pay their respect either to their beloved departed ones or they recite prayers to those they knew.
One nun asked me if I wanted to have a grave of my own inside this cemetery to which I readily replied, "How I wish!" She, too, would love to have a piece of this land as her final resting place. She narrated that her father was a soldier and he earned a right to be buried at Libingan ng mga Bayani but the family was unaware of such privilege. She said that after they buried her father in their own backyard at Kalinga, only then they knew that he can be buried in this cemetery. And if only she can trade places with her deceased father, she'll gladly embrace a spot inside this cemetery.
To have one's final resting place inside this cemetery is indeed an honor. Many Filipinos will fight for this prestige but only a few earns it.
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