PHILSTAR/EDD GUMBAN

A monument of the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” S. Aquino, Jr. in Manila, just outside Intramuros. Vice-President Maria Leonor G. Robredo said yesterday, on his 35<sup>th</sup> death anniversary, “Our remembrance of Ninoy tends to focus largely on this martyrdom, when, through his courage in the face of death, he inspired a people to find their own.”