We have no heroes: Reds and Yellows have debased our concept of 'heroes'

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

Aug 29, 2022 12:06 am

TODAY is National Heroes' Day. What is strange about this holiday, so important that the country gives up a full day of working, that workers paid daily suffer, is the law that ordered it. Commonwealth Act 3827 of Oct. 28, 1931 did not specify who were the heroes the day was celebrating. The Act consisted of only three sentences:

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