[Newspoint] Pissing on history

Lest we forget or get confused — especially since we’re getting all the help we don’t need — it was on the 21st, not on the 23rd, of August, 1983, that Benigno Aquino Jr. returned from exile — to his martyrdom.

That was a mere three years after the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, worried that a high-profile political prisoner, his archrival in fact, would die in his hands, had let him out for an emergency heart bypass surgery in the United States. Before that, he had spent seven years in Marcos’s prison, mostly in isolation.