The first Boy Scouts: When young and free Marinduquenos dared to explore and learn

 

Did you know? 

A Boy Scouts troop formation was documented in 1922 when 16-year old Celso Mirafuente, a student of Marinduque High School formed a troop in Boac, Marinduque based on a BSA handbook and clippings of Boys Life magazine that came into his possession. This led to the recognition of Mirafuente as the pioneer of Scouting in the province.

Through the initiative of the Rotary Club of Manila, in cooperation with other civic oriented groups like the Young Men’s Christian Association, Knights of Columbus, Masons, Elks, the Filipino and Chinese Chambers of Commerce, the United States Army, Catholic and Protestant Churches, and the American Legion, Scouting was officially established in the country as the Philippine Council of the Boy Scouts of the America (BSA). The Council was chartered as a first class council on December 27, 1923.

Note the above 1922 photo of the very first Filipino Boy Scouts formed in Marinduque. In those days there was almost absolute freedom for the young and the adventurous to dare to explore and to learn. 

This Marinduque Boy Scouts preceded the founding of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in 1923. It was organized by a 16-year old boy from Boac, Celso Mirafuente, who was inspired upon getting a copy of Handbook for Boys of the Boy Scouts of America and clippings of Boy's Life magazine.
The existence of the group surprised American Governor General in the Philippines, Leonard Wood, who kept a diary and wrote therein the following entry on December 10, 1922:

"We arrived off Boac about five o'clock or a bit afterwards and were met on the beach by the Governor, the Provincial Treasurer, the Judge of the Court of First Instance, the Mayor of the town, and a number of local officials, and also by about 25 or 30 boy scouts, an organization made up of young men of, I should say, 15 to 20 years of age. They were armed with wooden guns, carrying the American and Filipino flags and also a flag of their own company. They are full of enthusiasm and I did everything to encourage them by showing an appreciation of their turning out. Told them that I hoped that every boy in the Philippines of proper age and character would belong to the Boy Scouts; that we should soon have military training in the schools and colleges; that I felt the Boy Scout organization would have a fine influence throughout the Islands; all of which pleased them very much, and all of which I meant in all sincerity..."

A few days later came out in the Manila Times issue of December 13, 1922, the following entry: "Boy Scouts Unit praised by Chief Executive" "-xxx. He also mentioned the reception accorded to him in Boac, Marinduque, by a company of some 30 boy scouts who, he said "made an excellent showing".

Photo and source documents courtesy of Mr. Ernesto Sotto, BSP MARINDUQUE. 

Above photo shows: 1st Row: Scouters GAUDENCIO LEONIDA, ARTURO STO. DOMINGO, MANUEL MORENO, LUIS ALINO, EFREN JABAT, JOSE GARCIA 

& HILARIO NEPOMUCENO.

2nd Row: Scouters SANTIAGO LUZ, JOSE MARAPIA, ENRIQUE NEPOMUCENO, EUFEMIO ROSAS, ARTURO MARIPOSQUE & GREGORIO MONTALES.

3RD rOW: Scouters TOMAS ANGELES, NAZARIO MANAY, CELSO MIRAFUENTE (Organizer), PEDRO DEL MUNDO (Adviser) & JOSE RIVERA.

4th Row: Scouters BENITO ABAD LUKBAN, MARTIN MONLEON, PERFECTO MIRAFUENTE, IGNACIO ARAULLO and LEON MANDIA.

Maligayang Araw ng Kalayaan!

Kalayaan sa ating isipan,

Kalayaan sa ating mga salita,

Dangal sa ating mga puso.

Salamat sa mga nagtanggol sa Bayan!

ET Subject - Lifting the veil of secrecy. Hello Philippines!

During the second quarter of 2013, we Filipinos were fully occupied with Elections 2013 and all the drama and insanity associated with that exercise. We, our mainstream media first and foremost, and it goes on to this day, may have missed out on something completely earthshaking that transpired elsewhere - in the U.S. One that directly involves us and a new chapter in our human existence.

This is not speculation, this is fact.

From April 29 to May 3, 2013 researchers, activists, and military/agency/political witnesses representing ten countries gave testimony in Washington, DC to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

The Citizen Hearing on Disclosure was an unprecedented event in terms of size, scope and the involvement of former members of the U. S. Congress. With over 30 hours of testimony from 40 witnesses over five days. The event was the most concentrated body of evidence regarding the extraterrestrial subject ever presented to the press and the general public at one time.

Some parts of the hearing and added video on the Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit created by General of the Army Douglas McArthur in 1947, under the U.S. Military:

On briefing Obama, on several extraterrestrial species found and extra-terrestrial vehicles measuring 26 miles in diameter, suppressed technology growth and the impact on Energy, etc.

Dr. Steven M. Greer - Citizen Hearing On Disclosure - The Disclosure Project 2013 (A research project working to disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy):

 "The key point here is that the technologies that would give us a new civilization WITHOUT oil, WITHOUT gas, WITHOUT coal, WITHOUT nuclear power, are extant, they already exist, they've been developed, and it is a matter of the utmost national security and world peace and justice that we bring these sciences

out, and start a new chapter in the human experience." - Dr. Steven M. Greer

Here's the transcript of this video:

0:00however you need to understand

0:03that the technologies that we have

0:06and we’re discussing are not theoretical we have actionable intelligence

0:10that any company in congress or

0:13executive action can find good regarding current

0:17operations I just wanna go through a list that them very quickly

0:20up these facilities and corporations

0:23for which we have witnesses who a can be subpoenaed

0:27by the committee so the congress up this was developed have to request a

0:32congressman christopher cox

0:34Orange County and with whom I met and was later to put further develop for

0:39the briefing for that we put together for President Obama these facilities are

0:44the Edwards Air Force Base

0:46and subsections where I’ll net the

0:49dry lake bed where lockheed skunkworks operations

0:53heats to haystack Butte China lakes

0:56George Air Force Base and the clothes morton

0:59Air Force Base were in anti-gravity device a car deal in reproduction

1:03vehicle

1:04for which we have the schematic Swiss seen by Frank Carlucci

1:07and others on our witness team a tabletop mountain

1:11and blackjack control up the airspace facilities there

1:16or the Northrop Ampthill facility t-con

1:19ranch the mcdonnell-douglas law no plan Lockheed Martin Howe and El plan

1:23and the Philips lap at the Nellis Air Force

1:26facility so-called area 51 no one calls it that

1:30there’s this for in S-twelve who Mesa

1:33groom lake and unknown number sup facilities the most important facility

1:37is in Utah

1:39near Provo the Dugway Proving Grounds all of which

1:42is underground airspace above it is classified

1:45there are no roads into this facility the

1:49New Mexico facilities include Los Alamos National Labs with underground

1:53connectors

1:54to the so-called tolsey area where the biological work is being done

1:58and Kirtland Air Force Base in the complex there include Sandia National

2:02Laboratories

2:03Phillips labs Manzano met a mountain weapons storage facility

2:07Coyote Canyon and the white sands complex in Arizona

2:12near Fort what you go which is army intelligence headquarters

2:15there is no you GB underground base where one of our witnesses who will

2:19testify

2:20worked on 9 separate extraterrestrial vehicle that had been down to advance

2:25electromagnetic pulse weapons

2:27and there are several different species up extraterrestrial biological story

2:32that facility the other facilities in this goes on

2:38include the shove a special

2:41compartment it area up Cheyenne Mountain where we have witnesses in our team who

2:45can be subpoenaed

2:46about where that we have tracked extraterrestrial vehicles

2:50in our solar system that we’re measuring 26

2:53miles in diameter other also

2:56a built facilities in Australia key when be in Pine Gap

3:00the so-called Alice Springs facility which is mostly a US Air Force facility

3:05even though it is in Australia

3:07I recently talked to the deputy prime minister

3:10Australia about this are also the rest on Arsenal

3:13an the Marshall Space Flight Center we have a scientist at the Redstone Arsenal

3:18under who works under contract for AT&T who have developed the strands

3:22dimensional systems

3:23he was under contract with my project to bring these energy devices

3:27out and he was then threatened by a former CIA director

3:30and when I called the goon squad that went down there three years ago

3:34in March this is just heart at the information we

3:38have and this information is on the flashdrive given

3:42Stephen Bassett’s staff them you’re all welcome

3:45to review thank you thank you well

www.disclosureproject.org
www.cseti.org
www.siriusdisclosure.com
www.citizenhearing.org

The Interplanetary Phenomena Research Unit. Sgt. Clifford Stone gives the amazing history of UFO and ET involvement dating back to the 1940's. (Posted on YouTube just yesterday, Nov. 4, 2013).

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The Earth has been visited by advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other dimensions faster than the speed of light. They use energy propulsion systems that can bring us to a new era. Humans have also developed these systems but those in power have suppressed them in order to keep us at the mercy of fossil fuels. It is time for you to know. Read Sirius Disclosure

The Dalai Lama on Death

"Oneness of humanity... that I think (is) very important, we're the same. Then we finally... (in) death we're the same. Sometimes I joke a little, oh how serious... Then we pass through cemeteries, that's our final destination, we have to go there (laughter)... Eventually you also have to go there, so nobody can escape. Even Buddha, from Buddha's viewpoint, went that way, Buddha also you see,  went that way, Jesus Christ also went that way, Mohammad also went that way. Therefore whether we like it or not that's our final destination. Money no use, fame no use, power no use or weapon no use. What thing brings us tranquility at that moment? Ah life spent - meaningful life served... helping others not harming others.. that's very important." - His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Scotland 2012.

Speaking at a conference on "Living and Dying in Peace" in Swtzerland, April this year, he was asked whether it is important to train ourselves to meet death, and if so, how to do it.

“Death will come because it is a part of life,” the Dalai Lama said. “People who avoid the very words old age and death will be caught unawares when it comes. In some of our meditation practice we visualize the process of death and the associated dissolution of the elements every day, so that we may be prepared for the actual event. For those who believe in a succession of lives, death is just like changing your body. If you have led a meaningful life, when death takes place there’ll be no need for regret." 

Sakyan mo ako, Marinduque Tricycles and Vans

Motorized tricycle.

Tricycles are the most popular means of transportation in all Marinduque towns. A tricycle could normally carry four passengers but tricycle drivers often squeeze in five for that extra money to the discomfort of passengers. Two passengers ride in the side car and two behind the driver. Regular short routes are always with fixed rates from Php 10 upwards to distances of up to about 12 kilometers.  

"Sakyan mo ako", ride on me.

Beyond that distance, the rate is negotiated with the tricycle driver who, instead of quoting his price, are wont to ask passengers how much they might be willing to pay for the special trip.

So this boy rides this tricycle his own way.

With the promotion of tourism in the island of Marinduque, some  residents have invested in the purchase of comfortable passenger vehicles.

Passenger Van

Full size vans such as these could accommodate 8 to 10 passengers. They could be hired on a daily basis and the charge (including a driver), is from Php 3,500 to Php 5,000 for trips within the island. Vans could also be hired from Marinduque to any point of Luzon. Some have obtained franchises for daily trips from Manila-Marinduque and vice-versa charging Php 800 per passenger. There are no terminals for these vans in Metro Manila. They could be reached by calling the number of their operator who would arrange for the pick up of passengers from their houses or any given location ("door-to-door service").

The above vans are owned by Ronald Pol Millar of Joy Long Grandia Shuttle Service with adddress at Bancoro, Buenavista, Marinduque, and could be contacted via
Celphone Nos. 0939-855-9755 or 0910-449-7606.