Friday,

01 August 2014

Dearest Daddy,


I have not written you a letter for a long time now,
and today , I felt like writing you a short one. It was in the afternoon of
Tuesday, 01 August 1972 when we lost you at sea..never to have
recovered your body.never to be able to say our last GOODBYES!! It
has been 42 years now, yet the events that happened on that afternoon
remain vivid in my mind. We rushed to the pier to be with Mommy, who
was waiting for your return from your usual business trip to Basilan!
We rushed and we saw the motor launch burning. yet we were
confident that you would be a survivor, because you were a good
swimmer and besides there would be rescuers around because the boat
was not far off!! The anxietythe fear. the waiting took forever!!


We learned to finally accept that you were not coming back after
13 years of actively waiting. We even have your name on a
headstone beside Mommy & Sonnyon an empty grave! We have
learned to say Thank You Lord, for giving us Tony S. Mas for our Daddy!
Thank you for the 26 beautiful years you gave Daddy to be with us! On
this 42nd anniversary of that tragic event, I came upon this poem which I
dedicate to you, Daddy. wherever you are I pray that you are safely
enveloped in the arms of the Almighty.

I LOVE YOU, DADDY
(by Laura Phipps)


You held me up when I was weak.
You hugged me close when tears I'd weep.
When things got hard, you pushed me through.
You always showed me you loved me true.
I know there were times I made you cry, and to this day,
I don't know why.
For without you, where would I be?
I am thankful God gave you to me.
Thanks Dad for you is one in a million.

You are the BEST!

All my love,

Your #1Alilou