National Heroes’ Day
Today is National Heroes’ Day in the Philippines. It’s the day we raise our San Miguel bottles to the brave Filipinos who risked their lives to bring about our independence. As I watch the news about what’s happening in other countries: raging wars and human atrocities, I feel all the more grateful for simple things that I get to do like blogging and enjoying this holiday, because those heroes made this place safe for me.
I’m not saying the independence we have in our country is perfect or absolute. But I’d just like to make a little shout-out to my favorite National Hero: Andres Bonifacio, who was one of the first Pinoys to say “Hey, let’s go and organize ourselves on a national level so we can stand up against those bastard colonizers who are killing our people and exploiting our land!” … not verbatim, of course.
He’s the guy at the far end of the table, leading the vow to fight for freedom more than a hundred years ago :P
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