The flag
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
Last weekend the news centered on whether or not the United States was going to be with us against China over the issue of Spratly Islands. And when tri-media devoted almost as much space to Manny Pacquiao’s moving into Forbes Park, the purchase of a house that purportedly cost more than P300 million served to distract, methinks, from the commemoration of Independence Day.
Anyway. Where before the unspoken rule was to have the Vice-Presidents in the Emilio Aguinaldo house in Cavite while Presidents took in all the pomp and pageantry and pagandahan ng floats at the Quirino Grandstand, the most recent one had P-Noy himself laying the wreath at the tomb of the first President of the Republic, and after raising the flag up high on the same balcony where it was hurled 113 years ago, there delivered his “graft-free Philippines” speech.
Curiously, where is the original flag? Is it still around? Is it the one in Baguio, under the care of the Aguinaldo-Suntays, described as “custodians” of the much, much earlier version “discovered folded and tucked” in Aguinaldo’s deathbed in 1964?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110615com5.html
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