Heroism is in the blood of every Filipino

MANILA, Philippines - Heroism is in the blood of every Filipino, President Aquino said.

“I believe the blood that runs in our veins is the blood of heroes. We’re a nation of heroes. There are many ways to heroism in the present times, and there’s no need for guns or spears, no need to shed blood”.

This is only a phrase from the speech of President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino in his National Heroes’ Day message at the Libingan ng Bayani at Fort Bonifacio. As a Filipino citizen, I really appreciated the way he was able to elaborate his own will to define what heroism is.

For me; it is really true that a sense of heroism remains in our blood as a Filipino through the struggles and achievements of our heroes to set the future and destiny of the Philippines as what we had in today’s generation. If we recall in the history of our constitution, our heroes serves as a model to our fellow countrymen to risen their unconsciousness in order to fight for our freedom and justice. Our heroes aim for one goal which is for the common good of our nation and not as a servant to those foreign invaders. We had our beloved land that can provide our living, properties and people which can build independent nation that can stand alone without foreign dictators. The sense of nationalists and heroism of our heroes up raise the country from being idiots to the eyes of those colonists. Heroes lost their lives through injustice, some in battlefields, but the way they did is an act of heroism because actually they had only one goal which is to have our freedom and prosperity in our own land. Based on the heroism act of our heroes, today, it is true that heroism can be done in many ways.

Heroism can be done through simplest ways that there is no need to lose our lives. We can consider ourselves as a hero by helping our fellow countrymen, if we help each other; we are also helping our nation. We are all heroes to ourselves and to our brothers. The rampage of poverty can be ease if we will help those who are in down. No poor Filipino, no poverty, and then we can aim for a progressive country. We must be our brother’s protector and we are heroes of our nation.