Some camps are clamoring for former President Corazon C. Aquino to be given National Hero honors.
Please tell me it's a joke. We're all getting way ahead of ourselves. People lose their rational sense when overwhelmed with emotions. Let us not use her recent death as a bargaining tool.
Cory was thrusted into the national spotlight in 1986, as the opposition's presidential standard bearer. Her ascent to the presidency was a byproduct of a lot of political and social events, Ninoy's assassination in 1983 and People Power among others. She was merely the figurehead chosen to lead our nation back into democracy. She did not do anything remotely heroic.
Yes, she had her contributions and I'm not belittling them. However, whatever she had done for the country does not even scratch the surface of what Jose Rizal, Lapu-Lapu and Ninoy did for us. And let me remind everyone that she did not live a hero's life nor did she die a martyr's death.
For all these reasons and more, she should not be hailed as a National Hero. She just doesn't make the cut.
Ninoy, yes. But Cory, no.
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I actually can't agree with you more. I hate it how everyone's overhyping this Ninoy-Cory thing. They overdo it to the extent that they make someone like Cory run for president--- Noynoy. They immediately forget that the Aquino administration was such a mess.
Yes, it was one big mess. Cory may have been honest and all. But Kamag-anak Inc. was brutally corrupt.
No to Noynoy.
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