While entering the first day of August, the entire nation was saddened and shocked by the untimely demise of one of the greatest leader in the Philippines who was able to merge politics with religion. Her excellency Madam Corazon Cojuangco Aquino rose into power by the peaceful revolution known as the People Power 1 which brought the end of Marcos' dictatorship. For me, Tita Cory deserves a monument in EDSA since she was the heroin of the first Filipino peaceful revolt with rosary as the main weapon. I was then a graduating Agricultural Engineering in ViSCA now Visayas State University or VSU in Baybay, Leyte when we heard the calling for support of the late Cardinal Sin for the then Secretary of National Defense Juan Ponce Enrile and Gen Fidel V. Ramos who led the quo detat in 1986 which toppled the Marcos dictatorial regime. But why Cory? When in fact she was not the prime mover of the quo, is it not that everything has already been taken cared of up above. The ordinary housewife at that rose into power by God's intercession and the rest is history.
With her death, we must not forget the things she had been fighting for. I hope that her spirit of enthusiasm towards reinstalling democracy in our country be always present in the minds of every Filipino, that her advocacy become also our advocacy so that in her death continues the burning flame in every heart of the Filipino to pursue what she has started. (Itutuloy natin ang laban ni Ninoy; ituloy natin and laban ni Cory). Let it be so.
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