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'Everyone has probably heard it by now, but it doesn’t make it less true: those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it' PHVote IMHO Opinion
In 1987, my father, my maternal grandparents, and I were gathered around our “new” television set in the corner of the master bedroom. It was the type of TV that was fixed inside a cabinet, with large dials on the right side and antennas sticking out on top. It was even in technicolor!
It was the anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, and we were watching a TV special about it. There were clips of nuns with rosaries and flowers, standing in front of tanks. It showed crowds rejoicing as they broke into Malacañang, and people climbing on poles, flashing the L sign. As the TV special was about to end, with “Magkaisa” playing in the background while yellow confetti rained down on EDSA, my dad pulled me close. Then he spoke with the kind of voice – somewhere between a whisper and regular speech – that meant he was talking to me, but wanted the rest of the room to hear him, too. “I was there,” he declared. I was too young then to know the significance of that bloodless revolution, but the way my dad said it, I knew he was proud of what he did.
As I look back on it, I am not sure now if he was trying to impress me or his in-laws. Or perhaps, as a young lawyer who completed law school as Martial Law ended, my dad just felt a sense of accomplishment being part of history. Whatever the case, to this day, it was the proudest I ever was of him. Since that day, every time I saw a clip about the EDSA Revolution, or whenever we talked about it in school, at the back of my mind I always thought to myself, “My dad was there.
I now live in that same house where we were gathered, and I sleep in the same room where we watched TV. So as I write this, just after seeing the latest partial and unofficial presidential election results, I’m staring at that corner where the old TV used to be, daydreaming of better days when we as a country beat a Marcos through the leadership of a beloved politician’s widow.
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