FilAms remember Ninoy Aquino on 40th death anniversary | TFC News New York, USA
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🎵Hipog pang may layang lumipad, kurungi mo at umiiras,
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Bayan pa kayang sapdal dila, ang limang nasang makaalkas.
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Filipino-Americans in New York gathered at the Benigno Aquino Triangle in Queens
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to mark the 48th anniversary of the late Philippine senator's assassination.
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It was Aquino's death in 1983 at the then Manila International Airport
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that sparked a movement that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos Sr.'s dictatorship
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in what is known today as the EDSA People Power Revolt.
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Forty years ago, Nino Aquino said the Filipino is worth dying for.
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Filipino New Yorker Atty. Lara Gregory told a crowd of pro-democracy Aquino supporters
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that it was Nino's amplified voice of dissent that cost him his life.
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Before his death, he spent seven years as a political prisoner,
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imprisoned for the opinions that he had.
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And you'd think that after being in prison for seven years,
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he would decide to just stay in the United States after having his heart bypassed.
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But no, Nino chose to return to the Philippines. Why?
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So that he can unite the opposition to amplify the voice of dissent.
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I took that photo one week in a press conference in Los Angeles.
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Eric Lechica, who snapped this photo of Nino before his rendezvous with Destiny, says
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Nino knew the risk of meeting and challenging his political opponent upon returning to his homeland.
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I saw it in his face. He was really going to play his Jose Rizal card, being a martyr.
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I really saw it. Because he was already warned by Imelda Marcos.
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Lechica claims it was an in-person warning from then First Lady Imelda Marcos,
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who met with Nino face-to-face in New York City prior to his planned trip to the Philippines.
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Imelda said, you owe me your life. I let you go to go on exile.
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But now you're planning to come back. That's the warning.
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The bullet that snuffed Nino's life led to a revolt in 1986
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that freed the Filipino people from the shackles of tyranny.
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Broadway musical genius David Byrne witnessed how Filipinos revered the hero of his Broadway musical
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Here Lies Love. The said musical tells the story of Imelda Marcos' rise and fall.
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Very important that the Filipino community and in general, people in New York, remember this story.
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Remember what happened. Remember Nino's legacy.
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Because it's being erased in the Philippines.
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And we have to be very careful that history is not erased.
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So it's very important that small events like this keep that little flame of history alive.
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The Filipino people is worth fighting for.
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So now I'm asking all the viewers here, what will you do for the Filipinos?
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For our fellow Filipinos?
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Long live the Philippines!
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Don Tagala, ABS-CBN News, New York
