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E-mailThe Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) urged congressmen to withdraw their signatures from House Resolution No. 1135 and asked people not to make a "mockery of the service and sacrifice of Filipino war veterans by giving a hero’s burial to someone who is not only a fake war hero, but was also responsible for undermining democracy and development during his long tenure as authoritarian ruler. “
Around 200 solons signed the said resolution, including Marcos’ former Agriculture Minister Rep. Salvador H. Escudero III.
Fabricated tale
The group argued that Marcos’ “corrupt dictatorial regime” turned the country into the “sick amn” of Asia and that the claim that Marcos was a World War II hero is a “total fabrication.”
“Was Marcos really a ‘well-decorated soldier’? He may have been a war veteran just like many Filipinos of his generation. But a hero certainly he was not,” the CEAP statement read.
The educators asserted that the “elaborate tale” that Marcos led the “Maharlika guerilla unit” during the Japanese occupation was exposed as a fictitious story by American historian Alfred McCoy. An official United States military investigation made right after the war already declared it as a fraud.
They asked schools to be vigilant in the revisions and reinterpretations of history by people with vested interests.
“How can his supporters claim that Marcos `built the modern foundations of the Philippines’ when he presided over the country’s near economic collapse under the burden of behest loans and corrupt practices which to this day our nation has not fully recovered from?” the group added.
They also pointed out that the Marcos family and their cronies have yet to be held accountable for “serious charges of plunder.”
They quoted St. Augustine who said, “Charity is no substitute for justice withheld” then asked “Let justice be the tie that binds us as a nation.”
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