What about the SAF44 women? #WomensMonth2015

IT was very sad to read “The Mourning After” (Rogue Magazine, March 2015) by Manolo Quezon, Undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development Strategic Planning Office, which talks about how the President is “facing the impossibility of extricating his personal history from the national narrative.”

The essay talked about how, when the President invokes his own grief in the face of the grieving families of the fallen 44 SAF policemen, he is commiserating the only way he knows how--reveal how deep his sadness remains over the loss of his own father. It explains how the President is but a product of his upbringing, where being the only son of public figures disallows him from the clichés of displaying public emotion.