SUBSCRIBEIndependence Day 07
Lest we forget that more than a hundred years ago, our forefathers offered life and limb, sacrificed themselves on the altar of heroism to attain the freedom that we enjoy now. A year short of a hundred and ten years, that freedom is still alive but with current mindset and general apathy, this momentous event is in danger of just becoming a hollow yearly no-work/no-class holiday represented by wreath laying at national shrines, flag displays, expected speeches on nationalism and of being Filipino. At the otherside, crass commercialism abounds with the usual mall sale madness, trips to out of town sorties for a short vacation and just plain I-don’t-care-attitude.
The struggle for our freedom, it seems, still continues.
One of my photos has been featured in Pinoycentric for their Independence day post.
June 15th, 2007 at 10:56AM
tama ka jan pre! its ironic na for a country having been one of the first in southeast asia to be free from foreign power to still have this luxury of really being free.
June 13th, 2007 at 10:47AM
Ay naku, pinoy will continue struggle for freedom, freedom from our selves and the exploits in our society…