Remembering tita Cory

Some people make me sick... Marine Col. Ariel Querubin, who helped lead a coup against Aquino in 1989, said in a statement: “She braved the night and the anti-riot police to be one with the people in prayer.” “Through the years I have learned to admire her bravery and courage very much. She was brave up to her final moments,” said Querubin, detained in connection with a failed 2006 coup against President Gloria Arroyo.

Two of Marcos’ senior aides defected in February 1986 after he beat Aquino in elections marred by massive cheating.

Aquino called her supporters onto the streets to protect them, giving birth to her “People Power” Revolution that sent the strongman and his family packing for exile in Hawaii, where he died three years later.Aquino established a transition government, overhauled the electoral process, released political detainees and instituted democratic reforms.

I saw Ariel Queubin and Rommelino Gojo painting a Marine LVT tank with the RAM-SFP markings back in December 1989. They treacherously went against my dad (who was Marine Commandant at that time), to lead the 1989 military revolt against tita Cory.

Their goal was simple- to murder the President! Rebel choppers open fired on the Presidential palace with rockets but luckily missed tita Cory.

Bloody coup attempts hounded her from Year one up to 1989. The first five of these useless rebellions were crushed without or with minimal violence. But the sixth left 53 people dead and over 200 wounded, including tita Cory’s son, Noynoy, now a senator. A handful of rebel Marines open fired on a Presidential convoy that carried tita Cory’s eldest son.

The seventh and final attempt, in December 1989, ended with more than a 100 dead and cost the nation more than a P1 billion financially. Until now, these rebels say their actions against Pres. Cory Aquino were “justifiable”. Some of these same rebels are again in jail, for their involvement in “military adventurism” against the present administration. Tita Cory, who these rebels loathed to the point of trying to murdering her, has now metamorphosed into the country’s madre de familia and national treasure.

I ask these rebels now… Was it worth trying to slaughter our madre de familia?