Present at the creation; I’m vain, aren’t I?

IT’S that time of year when Edsa’86 veterans again validate what the Durants say: All autobiography is vanity. This week, I recall two RAM elders, Col. Joe Almonte and Col. Eugene Ocampo. The latter perished early on and was in no position to be vain. Last we talked in 1987, he said he no longer understood what RAM was for, insisting that military and civilian authority was at par. Now, the Inquirer said the other day that RAM said: “We won.”

It seemed to me the brave, audacious but trapped, doomed coup plotters had lost, waiting to be barbecued, until the People rescued them. Not RAM, but PEOPLE POWER then. We owe Joe Almonte and Eugene plenty but I never heard JoeAl criticize RAM in any of their failed coups, and in murdering Ka Lando Olalia and his driver in 1986 (trial pending?).