(UPDATE) Recalling both the funeral procession of her husband
and the protest movement that catapulted her to power, Corazon Aquino
made her final journey down historic Ayala Avenue at midday Monday as
yellow confetti rained down on a crowd estimated to be in the tens of
thousands.
Like her slain husband Ninoy, former president Aquino was in a casket
traveling on a flat-bed truck, as well-wishers ready for rain but
enduring a scorching heat instead sang along to songs made famous
during the triumphant 1980s campaign against former dictator Ferdinand
Marcos.
As the convoy reached Makati, office employees spilled out to the
streets to show their support for Mrs. Aquino, who passed away Saturday
after more than a year-long battle with colon cancer. Many of them
flashed the
"Laban" sign or raised clenched fists, with yellow ribbons wrapped around their wrists.
Aquino supporters escorted the truck while the convoy inched its way
down Ayala Avenue,
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