Philippine Soldiers Told to Sort Out Wives
A Philippine general has told his men to put on record who their real wives are, saying it confuses the military when more than one woman shows up to claim the body of a dead soldier.
“The problem here is that we used to reckon that the one who wails the loudest ought to be the legitimate wife,” said Gen. Pantaleon Dumlao. “Lately, however, mistresses have been outcrying the real wives.”
Dumlao, chief investigator of the paramilitary constabulary, told soldiers in Iloilo province to straighten out their personnel forms specifying their beneficiaries.
“Before you die, choose who among your ‘wives’ you love most to forestall problems,” Manila’s Philippine Star newspaper quoted Dumlao as saying.
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