Reflections HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/31/2010

Reflections

HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 03/31/2010 He was lean and tall. I remember he sported very long locks any shampoo commercial model would envy. And he did not wear shoes, preferring leather sandals, instead, like Jesus did in those grainy movies I saw whenever the Lenten Season came near, which also meant shortened programming times for the only five television channels in existence, mostly government-owned or had Marcos cronies in their boards. It was at the height of martial law. The hippie look was his protest against the prevailing order. But since he was a priest, he could easily get away with it, able to stay away from the mean scissors of some over-eager Metrocom barbers, who wanted every male Filipino to sport the Aguinaldo crew cut and make them look like caricature versions of the man in the five peso bill... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100331com4.html

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