FM: A truly great Filipino, perhaps the greatest Ilocano

IN the past few months, the vilification of the late President Marcos, and eventually his family, again intensified as it was in the mid 1980s through two decades thereafter. Again, I am compelled to give my own piece about The Man.

The late President Ferdinand E. Marcos is one of the truly great Filipinos and perhaps the greatest Ilocano of the 20th century. In my few personal and private encounters with him, I perceived that FM was a sensitive person and kindhearted. He cared for his people not only collectively but as individual human beings. He could also empathize with them individually. He saw each and every man as a person. Totoong tao siya. Nilo Tayag knew this and can attest to that.