'Dear son,' mom of missing Jonas Burgos writes on Mother's Day

As mothers celebrate this Sunday (Mother's Day) with their families, the mom of activist Jonas Burgos will spend the day sending a letter out, hoping it will reach her son who has been missing since 2007. Like most mothers, Edita Burgos finds Mother's Day a time to bring back memories with their children as they grew up. In her letter to her missing son, she recalls how she prepared herself for motherhood, even before deciding to get married. Like most parents, she hoped to bring her children up well and wished that in turn they do the same to their own. "I told myself that if I got married and would have children, I would do my best to bring them up into God-fearing, loving and generous adults who would one day also have their own families and bring their children up the way I did," she reads her letter in a video posted on YouTube. She writes how she promised to be an example of how inexhaustible love is. "That even if I loved my family with all my heart, there would be more to go around. To love friends, strangers, even oppressors," she writes. Since her son's abduction on April 28, 2007, Mrs. Burgos has worked tirelessly to locate her him, who she believes was taken by the military. In a 2011 resolution, the Supreme Court directed the military to produce Jonas. However, the military has repeatedly denied its men were behind Jonas' disappearance. In her Mother's Day letter, Mrs. Burgos gives words of encouragement and understanding to children. "I know it was not always easy for you to look at your elders and draw from them lessons which you needed to reconcile your parents' plans for you and your own convictions. "You must have fallen a hundred times. But I am sure you would always get up. I could see this in the determination and set look of your eyes," she writes. Burgos said she still keeps her promise of loving with all her heart, and reveals her reason for writing the letter. "It is this love that urges me to ask you to look at your heart and find out, where is the real goodness in you. This mistake that you have made, how is it that you do not want to correct it?" she said. At the end of the letter, Burgos makes a request. She reveals that she wants only one thing for Mother's Day. "Are you afraid, my son? Do not fear. You can look at it as a gift on Mother's Day. This gift I ask from you. Tell me Harry, where have you brought my son?" the letter reads. A note at the end of the video says that three days before the video was made, a witness positively identified Major Harry Baliaga Jr. as one of the abductors of Jonas. In 2011, Baliaga was named as Burgos' principal abductor based on an investigation by the Commission on Human Rights. Baliaga failed to attend court proceedings, and the Court of Appeals later rejected a request to compel military officials to testify and produce documents on the investigation. Despite numerous setbacks, Edita Burgos remains hopeful that she will find her son. — LBG, GMA News