"i remember ninoy"

ive always found the acronym they came up with - ATOM, august twenty one movement - so cool, so... nuclear. which for me is so apt, considering what ninoy's death did for the country. the country imploded for three years before people power.

i was still in college when ninoy was assassinated. i remembered being glued to the tv, eager to watch the coverage of his arrival. then in a matter of minutes, he was already dead. i was shocked that it all happened real time. there was suddenly pandemonium inside that plane.

i really felt what he did, to come back to manila, was heroic. his life was definitely at risk. he was a political ingenue who threatened marcos. yet he wanted to stage a political comeback, to challenge marcos and free the people. he paid dearly with his life.

on a different note, i like this bench campaign. love the 'eyeglass' creative handle. another example of how they have made hero worship contemporary and hip. :)