The day passes by so fast! I woke up late this morning since I don’t have any appointments. At noon my cousin called and invited us (me and sister) for lunch at Mc Donald’s. I ate my favorite cheese burger and coke float. Mc Donald’s have the best cheese burger that I ever tasted. I even ate two of my favorite! After that delicious lunch, we go home.
And I heard over the news, today is the 24th death anniversary of our hero here in the Philippines, Benigno Aquino Jr. He was given birth on 1933 in Tarlac Province here in the Philippines. At 22, he became the nation’s youngest mayor in his hometown Concepcion. And after six years later he became governor of Tarlac province. In 1967, he became the youngest senator in the country’s history. Meanwhile, he married Corazon Cojuanco and raised five children. In 1973, he emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency when President Marcos was scheduled to leave office after completing the maximum two terms as president. The Marcos government had already begun its campaign against Aquino, labeling him as a Communist sympathizer because of the contacts he had established with insurgency leaders in central Luzon. Aquino's ambition to be president was dashed when President Marcos declared martial law and dissolved the constitution. Marcos took all power unto him and jailed his political opponents, including Aquino.
Aquino spent over seven years in prison and was found guilty of murder, subversion, and illegal possession of firearms. Aquino denied these charges as well as the legitimacy of his trial and conviction by a military tribunal. In 1980 he was allowed to go to the United States for a heart bypass operation, and he remained in exile as a research fellow at Harvard University until his ill-fated return in 1983. His opposition ended in August 1983 when, after living in exile in the United States for three years, he returned to Manila and was gunned down at the airport. His death precipitated massive demonstrations against President Marcos.
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