The speaker thanks the Fraternal Order of Eagles for the honor of being their guest speaker. He discusses how organizations like the Eagles provide an important social function by allowing people to develop relationships and meet needs that can't be met alone. The speaker emphasizes that cooperation and community response are essential for achieving goals like crime prevention. He hopes that through his membership in the Eagles, he can help benefit disadvantaged communities and uphold the values of service, kindness, and brotherhood that the organization represents.
The speaker thanks the Fraternal Order of Eagles for the honor of being their guest speaker. He discusses how organizations like the Eagles provide an important social function by allowing people to develop relationships and meet needs that can't be met alone. The speaker emphasizes that cooperation and community response are essential for achieving goals like crime prevention. He hopes that through his membership in the Eagles, he can help benefit disadvantaged communities and uphold the values of service, kindness, and brotherhood that the organization represents.
The speaker thanks the Fraternal Order of Eagles for the honor of being their guest speaker. He discusses how organizations like the Eagles provide an important social function by allowing people to develop relationships and meet needs that can't be met alone. The speaker emphasizes that cooperation and community response are essential for achieving goals like crime prevention. He hopes that through his membership in the Eagles, he can help benefit disadvantaged communities and uphold the values of service, kindness, and brotherhood that the organization represents.
The speaker thanks the Fraternal Order of Eagles for the honor of being their guest speaker. He discusses how organizations like the Eagles provide an important social function by allowing people to develop relationships and meet needs that can't be met alone. The speaker emphasizes that cooperation and community response are essential for achieving goals like crime prevention. He hopes that through his membership in the Eagles, he can help benefit disadvantaged communities and uphold the values of service, kindness, and brotherhood that the organization represents.
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MESSAGE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES
PRESIDENT OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES,
___________; OTHER OFFICERS OF THIS ESTEEMED CLUB; MEMBERS; LADIES AND GENTLEMEN; I THANK YOU FOR THE HONOR AS YOUR GUEST OF HONOR AND SPEAKER AND FOR THE CHANCE TO BE ONE AMONG YOUR MEMBERS TODAY WHO LIKE EACH ONE HAS SHARED A STRONG BELIEF “OF SERVICE THROUGH STRONG BROTHERHOOD.” FOR TRULY, THE THEORY THAT MAN IS A SOCIAL BEING EXPLAINS THE EXISTENCE OF ORGANIZATIONS OR CLUBS OR GROUPS. ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES, WHICH IS AIMED AT PROVIDING MEN AND WOMEN THE VENUE TO DEVELOP INTERDEPENDENT RELATIONSHIPS FOR THE SATISFACTION OF NEEDS, WHICH COULD NOT BE ATTAINED IN BEING ALONE. IN SHORT, EACH OF US DEPENDS UPON ORGANIZATIONS JUST LIKE US IN THE PNP; OUR OPERATIONS AGAINST CRIMINALITY WILL NOT BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT THE SUSTAINED COOPERATION AND IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM OUR COMMUNITIES. AS PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR OF IFUGAO PPO, I ALSO ENDEAVORED ON THE REGULAR REQUIREMENT OF POLICE WORK LIKE KEEPING THE PEACE AND ENABLING AN ENVIRONMENT FOR PROGRESS, HOWEVER, I TAKE THIS MEMBERSHIP ON A HIGHER LEVEL, KNOWING THAT YOUR VARIOUS PROGRAMS COULD BE VERY BENEFICIAL IN OUR CRIME PREVENTION STRATEGIES. MOREOVER, IN DOING SO WOULD TAKE MY PUBLIC SERVICE CALLING INTO AN EVEN HIGHER DEGREE OF SERVICE, ESPECIALLY TO OUR LESSER ADVANTAGED BROTHERS AND SISTERS. YES, IN THIS FAST-PACED SOCIETY WHERE EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE PRE-OCCUPIED WITH SELF-GRATIFICATION AND IS USED TO DISPOSABILTY, IT IS VERY HEARTWARMING TO NOTE THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO STILL EXEMPLIFY THE GREAT VALUE OF GIVING AND SHARING AND FONDLY TREASURE THEIR GRASSROOTS THROUGH THEIR SELFLESS SOCIO-CIVIC MINDED SERVICE OF WHICH THIS ORGANIZATION IS FOCUSED INTO. BEING ONE AMONG YOU IN THIS NOBLE ENDEAVOR WILL TRULY CATAPULT OUR COLLECTIVE PURPOSE THUS HOPE TO BENEFIT MORE AND MORE OF OUR FELLOW COUNTRYMEN WHO NEEDS UPLIFTMENT IN THESE MOST TRYING TIMES. WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF PAINS IN THE PAST BECAUSE OF DISASTERS, HUMAN AND MANMADE ALIKE AND THESE HARROWING EXPERIENCES HAVE CAUSED THE LOST OF LIVES OF OUR LOVED ONES, LOST OF PROPERTIES AND LOST OF SOURCE OF INCOME BY A VERY LOWLY FILIPINO. SERVICE TO MEN THROUGH THIS BROTHERHOOD IS INDEED TOWERING AND MANY HELPLESS PEOPLE CLAMORS FOR OUR AID, FOR OUR HELP, THAT THEY MAY AT LEAST BE UPLIFTED BY OUR GENUINE ACTS OF KINDNESS, I PRAY THAT THIS VISION SHALL BE REALIZED WITH OUR ZEAL AND COMMITMENT TO PURSUE OUR COLLECTIVE GOAL WITH THAT OLD NICHE THAT GOES...UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. YES, THAT WE MAY BE UNITED IN HEARTS AND IN DEEDS THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD. AS COUNTLESS CITIZENS MAY HAVE BEEN BENEFITTED FROM THIS ORGANIZATION, I EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO ALL OF YOU, THOUGH MY WORDS OF THANKS MAY NOT EQUAL THE GREAT EXPANSE OF YOUR BENEVOLENCE AND THE INSPIRATIONS WITHIN IT, BUT WITH HOPES THAT OUR SINCERITY AND COMMITMENT TO WORK WITH FERVOR IN THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD SHALL FILL THE GAP. LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE SYMBOLISMS AND MEANINGS OF THE SWIFT EAGLE BIRD WHICH I DO BELIEVE WE MUST POSSESS AS A REGULAR MEMBER OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES.
MALE EAGLES STAY ON GUARD OF THEIR NEST WHILE THEIR
PARTNERS INCUBATE THEIR EGGS. AFTER HATCHING, THEY STAY WITH THEIR FEMALE PARTNERS TO HELP RAISE THEIR EAGLETS. MANY EAGLE PAIRS ALSO RETURN TO THE SAME NEST YEAR AFTER YEAR. THIS SIGNIFIES LOYALTY AND DEVOTION. MEANING, WHATEVER IS THE COST, WE NEED TO STAY LOYAL AND DEVOTED TO OUR ORGANIZATION AND ITS MEMBERS.
EAGLES CAN SOAR TO 10,000 FEET 2 AND, WHEN DIVING, THEY
CAN ACHIEVE SPEEDS OF UP TO 100 MILES PER HOUR. THIS IS A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM AND SWIFTNESS. WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT WE ARE FREE, WE ARE STILL BOUND TO ABIDE BY THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR ORGANIZATION. ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT A FAULT OF A MEMBER DOES NOT ONLY GIVE DISGRACE TO HIMSELF/HERSELF BUT ALSO TO THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE BELONGED. ON THE OTHER HAND, SWIFTNESS IN THE SENSE THAT WE MAY BE SWIFT TO REACT IN SERVING OUR FELLOWMEN MOST ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE MOST IN NEED.
THE EAGLE EPITOMIZES THE SAYING, “THE TRUTH WILL SET
YOU FREE.” SOMETIMES THE TRUTH AND HONOR CAN FEEL LIKE WEIGHTY RESPONSIBILITIES. THE EAGLE REMINDS US THAT WHEN WE LIVE IN THE TRUTH, WE HAVE THE POWER TO SOAR HIGHER THAN WE EVER IMAGINED. LIVING IN THE TRUTH MEANS NOT LIVING IN DELUSION ABOUT WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE’RE TELLING OURSELF. IT MEANS BEING TRUTHFUL TO OURSELF AND TO OTHERS. WE ARE ALL CAPABLE OF TELLING OURSELF BIG LIES OR EVEN WHITE LIES BUT MAKE SURE NOT TO LOST OUR HONOR AS A PERSON AND THE HONOR OF THE ORGANIZATION WE BELONGED. MAY THE EAGLE SPIRIT REMIND US THAT LIVING FEARLESSLY MEANS LIVING IN THE TRUTH AND WITH HONOR.
THE WINGSPAN OF AN EAGLE CAN RANGE FROM SIX (6) TO
NEARLY EIGHT (8) FEET WIDE. WHEN AN EAGLE DIVES, THEY ARE STREAMLINED FOR SPEED, BUT WHEN THEY SOAR, THEIR WINGS SPREAD WIDE AS THEY ALLOW THE AIR CURRENTS TO ELEVATE THEM IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE EFFORTLESS GRACE. THIS ABILITY OF EAGLES TO SOAR TOWARDS THE HEAVENS SO GRACEFULLY IS WHY THEY ARE ALSO SYMBOLS OF HOPE AND SALVATION. INTERESTINGLY, HUMAN BEINGS EXPRESS A SIMILAR TYPE OF BODY LANGUAGE WHEN THEY EXPERIENCE VICTORY. CONSIDER A MARATHON RUNNER CROSSING THE FINISH LINE WITH HIGH, OUTSTRETCHED ARMS. WHEN WE OPEN OURSELVES WITH OUTSTRETCH ARMS, WE OPEN OUR HEART AND OURSELF TO OTHERS. WITH THIS, MAY WE BRING HOPE AND SALVATION WITH OPEN ARMS TO THOSE WHO ARE MOST IN NEED OF OUR SERVICES REGARDLESS OF THEIR STATUS IN LIFE.
EAGLES CAN SEE EIGHT TIMES AS FAR AS WE CAN. IN FACT,
THEIR EYES ALSO HAVE THE ABILITY TO ZOOM IN ON PREY, AND THEY CAN SEE A SMALL RODENT FROM TWO MILES AWAY. FURTHERMORE, THEY SEE MORE COLORS THAN WE DO. THESE SYMBOLIZE FORESIGHT AND PSYCHIC AWARENESS. MAY WE DEVELOP THE SO CALLED “EAGLE EYE” FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE BEST WE CAN DO AND MAKE A WISE DECISION AT ALL TIMES.
AS MY PARTING WORDS, AS WE BECAME BONAFIDE
MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATION, I AM ENCOURAGING AND EXPECTING EVERYONE OF US TO BECOME AMBASSADORS OF PEACE AND GOOD WILL IN OUR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITY. THE PNP IS LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH US AS THEIR ACTIVE PARTNERS NOT ONLY LIMITED TO PEACE AND ORDER CONCERNS BUT ALSO IN COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS IN THE DELIVERY OF SERVICES TO OUR FELLOWMEN.
WITH THIS, MAY THIS TRIBE INCREASE WITH GOD’S
BLESSINGS TO REDOUND A THOUSAND-FOLD FOR EACH OF OUR FAMILIES AND US, FOR OUR CONTINUED SUCCESSES, SO THAT WE CAN BE OF GREATER SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRYMEN THROUGH THE BOND OF STRONG BROTHERHOOD AND FRATERNAL TIES OF OUR PRESTIGIOUS ORGANIZATION.