Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Profiles: Andres Relampagos - The Last of the Mohicans

The passing away of Inco Andres Papeleras Relampagos, the last to survive among the originals of the Fabiano Relampagos Clan, was a great loss beyond retrieve. His departure of no return came as his chest heaved, and consequently exhaled the last thinning air from his lungs.

It was May 11, 1995, the eve of the Catagbacan,Loon (his birth place) Fiesta when Inco Andres eventually reposed in tranquility. He was at his ripe age of 86.

Within a haf decade of lingering physical immobility. he was not verily concious much less aware that the Fabiano Relampagos Clan he had conceived and forged, has started bearing fruits out of the seeds he strewed two scores and five years ago. He was the sewer but not the reaper.

Inco Andres as he was then respectedly called, was and will remain the undisputed PRIME MOVER of the Fabiano Relampagos Clan. He labored for it.

Out of love coupled with instinctive generosity, his solomonic brain unceasingly pondered on how to reconcile and retrieve, between and among scions of the greatest great, great grandparents of all times - Fabiano Relampagos and Marcosa Papeleras.

His initial call for reconciliation was made in 1950, when there were still leaving co-originals, like Inco Into (Jacinto), Tiyo Vidal, Manoy Ejan (Aniano, his first wife Telesfora Caminos was this writer's auntie), Inse Coning (Cornelia), Nang Ena (Lucena) and herein writer's grandmother in-law, late Nanay Diday (Hilaria). All of them witnessed the emergence of the Fabiano Relampagos Clan.

In sum the formation of the Fabiano Relampagos Clan could have hardly been possible were it not of the inceptive move taken by the late Inco Andres. As a result, produce by concious mental and physical exertions, Fabiano Relampagos clearly came into view in 1951.

Notwithstanding the unsolicited efforts Inco Andres has exhaustively expended in order to accomplish an objective, nothing is heard much less overheard, that a move has been taken to bestow even a little honor, by way of posthumous recognition to the departed prime mover of the clan. Granting there was, how soon will it take place is the biggest question. Very soon? It is hoped.

Putting Inco Andres similarly situated to the last of the Mohicans, he lost the battle but won the war. Great men does not die in vain. Indeed he had done a MAGNUM OPUS WORTHY OF RECOGNITION.

In passing, a passage by Abraham Lincoln (Gross, Lincoln's own stories) pertaining ancestry, is hereunder quoted, and I quote:

I don't know who my grandfather was;
I am much concerned to know what his grandson will be"

Each man meets its final destiny with God.

By: Jovencio Caminos

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