June 12, 1898, is a glorious date in the history of the Filipino people. On this day, Bro./President Emilio F. Aguinaldo proclaimed the freedom of the Filipino people. The Philippine national flag was hoisted and the country’s national anthem was played.
Bro. Aguinaldo’s proclamation of Philippine Independence not only heralded the birth of a new nation. It also brought glad tidings to the colonial subjects of Asia. It inspired the colonial subjects to struggle to be free, too.
June 12, 1898, was the capstone of the hundreds of armed uprisings launched by the Filipino people from 1571 to 1896 to recover their right to be free. “I will never bow my head before any foreign invader,” Rajah Kalipulaku of Mactan declared in 1521.
June 12, 1898, was the capstone of the hundreds of armed uprisings launched by the Filipino people from 1571 to 1896 to recover their right to be free. “I will never bow my head before any foreign invader,” Rajah Kalipulaku of Mactan declared in 1521.
“Freedom or Death!” cried Bro. Andres C. Bonifacio when he launched the Philippine Revolution on August 24, 1896. “The natives of the Philippines,” wrote the friar-chronicler Pedro Murillo Velarde, “were fierce defenders of freedom and enemies to subjection.” “Never did the Filipino people give up their right to be free,” declared World War II hero Benito Soliven.
The annals of the Filipino people are replete with names of men and women who readily gave up their lives for the sake of freedom.
Bro. Marcelo H. del Pilar, Bro. Graciano Lopez Jaena, Bro. Andres C. Bonifacio, Bro. Jose P. Rizal, Bro. Apolinario Mabini, Bro. Antonio Luna, Bro. Juan Luna and Many others nourished Philippine freedom with their blood and sacrifices.
We yearly celebrate Philippine Independence Day to bring to the awareness of our people that freedom is a most precious right.
Only those who fight for their freedom deserve to be free.
Freedom is the meaning of June 12, 1898.
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