Kabataan Party List is commemorating the anniversary of EDSA 1 with Blog Action Day: The Real Heroes of EDSA.
Twenty four years ago, our people toppled a tyrant.
On February 25, 2010 let us re-tell their stories.
On Thursday, we are enjoining all young Filipinos to blog about the stories of the real heroes of EDSA: our parents, grandparents, ates and kuyas, titos and titas, ninong and ninangs.
We may have been too young then or were not even born yet, but we can ask them to recount their tales of real-life heroism to us. What prompted them to join the uprising? What were their thoughts and feelings? What did they wear, eat, chant? How did it feel to be able to be surrounded by overwhelming unity and patriotism among millions of other heroes marching in the streets on those three historic days.
Since EDSA was mainly about the people’s resistance to martial law, you can ask them their experience during the martial law era, how they fought, even before the culmination of the people’s mass movement that was the EDSA People Power Uprising. You may also post old photos, artworks and/or anti-martial law memorabilia.
Link your blog entries to this post and grab the button below by copying the link to mark your participation. We will start posting links of entries in our website at exactly 12:00 noon on February 25.
On February 25, let us give proper honor and citation to the millions of Filipinos who made EDSA People Power possible.
You can copy the code from the Kabataan Party List’s Blog here.
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The EDSA is nothing but a delusion of the Filipinos. If Marcos
would had fought. There would be no EDSAs. Marcos still had the
firepower then. But, he did not use them. He did not want bloodhed.
So, we are deluding ourselves of this heroism. We should work for the
present. Not cling to the past. Look for the future. EDSAs are perpetrated by some political families. That they can stay in power.
And keep deluiding the Filipinos. Time to wake up!
It was a face saving for Marcos. The soldiers sent to disperse the people at EDSA changed heart, and returned to their barracks, some even joined the other side, very unlike the Chinese soldier who ran down his tank over the Tiananmen protester. Marcos probably sensed that any order to attck will probably be ignored anyway.
The Marine Contingent was very loyal to Marcos. Also its Special
Forces. If fighting would had broke out. There was no way Enrile
and Ramos would had won.
Enrile used the Region II troops based in Cagayan and Isabela to
help in the EDSA revolution. So, the Americans had to kidnap Marcos
to Hawaii to get him out of their way. Some of the troops in Region
I are also gearing for a fight. Only, Marcos prevented them.
EDSA is nothing but a delusion. I admire more Marcos on this matter.
He prevented bloodshed among Filipinos.
Even the marines would have succumbed to the plea of millions, in same manner the armored vehicles turned back after tears, flowers and rosaries were offered to them. Were you there?