Hopefully, Ferdinand Marcos, once a brutal dictator, is interred soon in Ilocos Norte either in Batac or in Sarrat. His family now supports Ilocos Norte’s favorite son’s burial with full military honors in his home province. News says that Gov. Imee Marcos has still to confer with vice President Binay for a possible fine tuning.
Pres. Aquino, I understand, has the final say on his father’s political nemesis’ burial. He has the final say although it is unimaginable for him to allow the former dictator to be interred in the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Personally, I don’t think that the former dictator deserves military honor.
Why now that they give him the 21-gun salute when in 1986, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Filipinos toppled him? Marcos was so lucky that he and his family were “kidnapped” according to Sen. Bongbong Marcos otherwise; if the angry, oppressed and brutalized people caught them in the Palace, the Marcoses could have met the fate of the Romanovs.
The former First Lady said that not all in the Libingan go to heaven.
I agree with that for the fate of a soul is only known to God. However if I were her in that advance age, that should not be my concern. Instead, it’s time for me to honestly search my soul and ask if I and my husband go to heaven.
Why is the Marcos family too eager that their patriarch be buried in the Libingan when others who deserve the honor more like Ninoy and Cory Aquino are not even there?
We hope that the remains of Marcos will be put to rest finally but the Filipino people whom he oppressed and brutalized will not rest in defending the truth that Marcos was a brutal dictator.
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