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Ninoy’s Cell

By deebeedee | Published: August 21, 2005

Today is apparently Ninoy’s 22nd death anniversary according to a couple of blogs I regularly visit. When Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was assassinated in 1983, my family and I had only been living here in the United States for seven months. We learned of his death on a Sunday morning at church from the domestic [...]

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Gallery of Presidents

By deebeedee | Published: July 11, 2005

We took the following pictures in Intramuros last 4th of July. As an “outsider,” it’s my lame attempt at commenting about the current Philippine political situation. To those who may get offended, advance apologies. I deemed an image of Marcos’s sculpture to not even be worthy of occupying space in my camera’s SD card.
  Left: Olivia [...]

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People Power and Reagan

By danieldyl | Published: June 11, 2004

I give props to Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) for ending the Cold War but I’d like to think the Filipino people helped inspire the world to fight oppressive regimes in the 1980s. The People Power Revolution that followed Ninoy Aquino’s assassination in 1983 catapulted his widow, Cory, to run, and eventually win, against the dictator Ferdinand [...]

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