I will only be
too glad if I can excite in you the courage and bravery of the Filipinos about
how WE fight for our freedom. If any foreign country started to rock our
dignity and our national pride at every going moment with every ticker of the
clock, WE fight to our last breath. Bravery and courage are always in the
pipeline in our hearts and soul that anyone who tries to mess with our national
pride, it would be the end of the line and we fight like everything depends on
it.
Two countries
invaded the Philippines, first was Spain. Spain made the Filipinos miserable in
every sense of the word. Our ancestors staged a revolt until Spain lost
interest in fighting. Thus, on June 12, 1898, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo declared
independence from the Spanish colonization.
However,
liberty was short-lived because Spain sold the Philippines to America. But the
Americans had thrown our nation into the fathomless gloom and doom. The
Filipinos started a revolt against it in 1899 and like Spain, America
emancipated the Philippines from their bondage. Consequently, the Filipinos
achieved national sovereignty on July 4, 1946, through the Treaty of Manila.
Independence
Day was officially observed on July 4 until Pres. Diosdado Macapagal, signed
Republic Act No. 4166 on August 4, 1964, which set out to move the holiday to
June 12.
Indeed, our
reputation as Filipinos is known as one that will just take everything until
they get worn out and take no more. Once our metric is full, no mountain is too
high and no dragon is too fierce. It is our human element that no force can
resist.
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