President Benigno Simeon Aquino III flashes the “Laban” sign as he observes the re-enactment of the historic “Salubungan” of former President Fidel Ramos-led AFP- PNP contingents and the civilian components headed by former Senator Butch Aquino now his son Bobby Aquino converge in front of the People Power Monument during the commemorative activities of the 30th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution in White Plains Avenue corner Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) Thursday (February 25). It re-enacts the stopping of the tanks and the convergence of the military and civilian contingents. This year’s theme is “EDSA 30 Pagbabago Ipinaglaban N’yo Itutuloy Ko!” The 1986 peaceful and bloodless uprising ousted the dictatorship and catapulted the late Corazon C. Aquino to the Presidency. (MNS photo)
MANILA (Mabuhay) – President Benigno Aquino III on Monday led the transfer and reinterment of the remains of the late President Elpidio Quirino at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig City.
Aquino joined the funeral march to the gravesite together with the Quirino family, former President Fidel Ramos, some members of the diplomatic corps, and military service commanders.
Judy Araneta-Roxas, mother of Manuel “Mar” Roxas II, also came to attend the reinterment. It was Quirino who took oath as president when former President Manuel Roxas died in 1948. Quirino was Roxas’ vice president.
Quirino was given a 21-gun salute and volley of fire before the pallbearers turned over the folded flag to President Aquino, who then handed it over to Eduardo Quirino, grandson of the late President Quirino.
The reinterment coincided with Quirino’s 60th death anniversary. He died of a heart attack at his residence in Novaliches on February 29, 1956.
Quirino was president from April 17, 1948 to December 30, 1953, when the country was rebuilding itself from the destruction of World War II.
He is the third president to buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, joining former Presidents Carlos Garcia and Diosdado Macapagal. (MNS)