An Icon from my Generation Died

Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino succumbed to colon cance after a year of battle. This one she didn't win. But she smothered tanks, power and fortune and an impossible dream. She was the first lady president of the republic and swept to power thru a bloodless and miraculous people power.
That's one for the books and I was a witness to the unfolding of history during that generation of great identity crisis both personal and national. Who would have thought that a housewife would stand up as an unrelenting mom for a nation in crisis.
I got back to that time where change is so thick in the air and so is fear. The economy is crumbling and the powers are in great disarray. Many opted for change and Cory was the only alternative left standing. If not now when? was the cry of the moment and everyone felt it but like half of the nation was uncertain as to what route to be taken. Families, friends, communities, the whole nation was totally divided.
The cloud of uncertainty was changed to a resolved opportunity to make it under a new leader. It wasn't easy. Many didn't made it easy for her. Those years were marred with massive brown outs and donor nation fatigue. But the national problems were montrous. She held her grounds with so much patience and strenegth. She did not give up and gave her best. It was her darn best coming from a housewife and the whole nation was her ward. It was impossible not to complain of the numerous helplessness at that time but it was like a birth pangs of a new nation coming out.
Just how far did the rest of us did. Many were look and see. Many stayed corrupt and new breed of pariahs prospered. Hungrier. But many embraced the change.
I mourn her death for looking back, she was a mother to nation that was so distressed. Her strength towered over the adversaries. The outpouring love and support was there. There can be no other her again. There will never be another opportunity that will touch the nation in such a magnitude in such sponteinity. Yes she was really a gift.