The significance of Independence Day was engraved in the Philippine history and every Filipino’s heart and soul. Being free from colonization of other was been a big challenge for our ancestors. Being ruled by a cruel leader was been tough for them to survive. It was like being jailed intro your own body and unable to move freely. Innocent people were taken away, tons of blood were spilled to the ground, tears shedded from those tired eyes and freedom became their greatest inspiration to vanish those heartless outlanders from our homeland. It takes a hundred of tiring years to be officially free from someone’s tight grip.
June 12, 189, we formally conquered the slavery of Spaniards against our country. Commemorating the Independence Day every year was been our tradition. On the exact date our Philippine flag was raised in the house of General Emilio Aguinaldo. The flag of the Philippines symbolizes our national pride and our entitlement of being a free country. And it is a huge responsibility for us millennial to retain the freedom that our heroes and ancestors fulfilled.
Nowadays, we can’t clearly say we are “independent”. Our country still has the incapability to stand alone. We aren’t colonize but our country is still depending to other countries because of economic instabilities we are facing through. Our nation has also have not outgrown the colonial mentality that the Westerners has instilled in us which makes us still dependent. Indeed, it is a challenge for us to work hard and aim for a better nation. We should appreciate our own nationality as a Filipino for us to be called a truly independent country.
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