It is histories that weave the diverse strands of a people’s past into the fabric of their collective memory. It is the quality of that fabric of memory that basically defines the quality of their life over time. And it is in the remembering of that shared memory that enables a people to image themselves a nation, to sense their destiny in the future, and to realize that destiny through the will to cope with the challenges of the present. Without good histories the collective memory is fragile and fragmentary.
I believe that the Filipino people have become less than the nation they deserve to be, in part because their histories have not moved them with adequate accounts of their constancy and valor, discipline and sacrifice, during the watershed of their nationhood.
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OD Corpuz
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As a speaker I listened to last week said, “we must not forget who we are. We must dig deep into our roots to find what is good within us and within our country.”
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