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QUEDAN The Third Benigno Aquino
“The only valuable asset I can bequeath to you now is the name you carry,” wrote Ninoy to Noynoy, then 13 on August 25, 1973, the night before he faced a military kangaroo court for alleged anti-subversion during martial law. “I have tried my best during my years of public service to keep that name untarnished and respected, unmarked by sorry compromises for expediency. I now pass it on to you, as good, I pray, as when my father, your grandfather passed it on to me.”
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What is in a name? In the case of Senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III, more popularly known as Noynoy, his s does not only hint at his pedigree or bloodline, but the story of a family