Mrs. Aquino’s only son Sen. Benigno Aquino III thanked the Filipinos for the love they had shown to his mother.
“I truly really believe without an iota of doubt that anyone will contradict me that you truly have fought the good fight you really have finished your course and undoubtedly you have kept the faith,” Noynoy said.
“Here is the Cory Aquino who knows how love each and every one of us. There is the Cory Aquino who is ready to do what is right never mind the consequences. There is the Cory Aquino who has the absolute faith in the Church and God. One who would wholeheartedly do the best she could and let God take care of the rest,” he said.
“Are we going to back to the anxiety? When my father died, we lost a leader, he was a strategist, he was our moral booster, but suddenly we lost the center of our world. I did not expect it would have a part two. Maybe I just do not want to face the truth,” the senator said.
“Do we really have to be sad because we have lost hope?” Noynoy asked. “Does the nation still have hope especially now that the one who led and inspired them is no longer around to help us everyday?”
He said looking at elementary school students who told him they were thankful for his mother touched his heart.
“Maybe we just have to bring these children closer to those who are playing blind and even deaf (to the realities),” he said.
He said the life of his mother should remind everyone that the Filipinos still got hope.
“Let it not be forgot that once there was a Camelot,” Aquino III said.
The senator recalled that his mother never turned her back when she needed to lead the Edsa revolution and even up to 2006 when there was a standoff at Fort Bonifacio to avoid bloodshed.
He said there were times he did not understand her and almost rebelled but later realized she was always right and had depended on her wisdom.
To express how proud he was being her son, he quoted what former African leader Nelson Mandela told him during a visit to his mother before, “So you are the son. You knew how to choose your parents correctly. And I said, most definitely, your excellency.”
The others who spoke in the necrological services were Bro. Armin Luistro of La Salle; Marge Juico who was her appointments secretary; Nonie Uy, her friend from Cebu; former Environment Secretary Fulgencio Factoran Jr,; Sister Remy; columnist Conrado de Quiros; brother Jose Cojuangco Jr.; Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay; and Dr. Rosalinda Hortaleza.
Source: http://ph.yahoo.com
Sen. Benigno Aquino III thanked the Filipinos for the love they had shown to his mother
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