SunStar
April 29, 2021
WE MAY laugh at a vice governor’s guffaw for posting praise for Magellan instead of LapuLapu as the hero of Mactan, and we may laugh more at one DDS influencer who shared the same post. We cringe when one official said LapuLapu is of Mindanao descent. But, this also shows a deeper problem that we all have our lack of sense of history.
I remember during the 30th anniversary of Ninoy Aquino’s assassination, a man on the street interview asked has anyone remember who Ninoy is. The funniest tragic answers included these: that he died during World War II. That he was a close ally of Marcos until he turned his back on him and he died. ....