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| Bulletin Today headline, August 22, 1983 |
It’s Ninoy Aquino Day today, a holiday created by RA 9256, signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo twenty-one years after the event. Today is exactly 30 years from that date
Ninoy was felled by a shot fired at the back of his head at close range,
exiting his chin then reverberating throughout the country and throughout the world. Thousands paid their
last respects at his wake, and 10 days later more than two million watched the
funeral cortege or joined the procession to his final resting place in a walk
that lasted 12 hours.
That single shot that felled him ignited a spark that
culminated three years later in the Cory Aquino-led People Power Revolution. The quote, “The
Filipino is worth dying for” is attributed to Ninoy, yet a couple of years ago
the following poster made the rounds of Facebook walls.
