They had no lightsabers, but had rosaries, flowers and prayer as their weapons....
The reluctant widow becomes the new President...
A New Hope was felt throughout the nation...
Serving up a Filipino fanboy's musings on life, Star Wars and everything in between. Droids and Wookiees allowed.
Friday, February 25, 2011
25 years ago, the Marcos Empire Struck Out...
I was a freshman high school student in Legazpi City when it happened, 2 days short of my thirteenth birthday. From the time that I was born, I only knew one Philippine President, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, and this was a landmark event in Philippine history. Marcos, the invincible, probably the most intelligent of his predecessors, a dictator who ruled the nation for 20 years with an iron fist, the might of the Philippine Armed Forces at his command, defeated by Corazon Aquino, a widow with no political experience whatsoever, but strengthened by a Filipino Force called People Power. It was like the mighty Death Star's destruction by an amateur X-wing pilot all over again....
They had no lightsabers, but had rosaries, flowers and prayer as their weapons....
The reluctant widow becomes the new President...
A New Hope was felt throughout the nation...
They had no lightsabers, but had rosaries, flowers and prayer as their weapons....
The reluctant widow becomes the new President...
A New Hope was felt throughout the nation...
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