August 21 and the deaths of Aquino, Robredo

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August 21, 2012 is the day President Benigno Aquino III marks the 29th death anniversary of his father and brings home to Manila the body of his friend and colleague, Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, who died in a plane crash on Saturday, August 18. President Aquino was with other Cabinet and government officials onboard a C-130 plane of the Armed Forces at the Masbate airport where Robredo was given military honors. President Aquino supervised the search and rescue operations for Robredo and his two pilots since Sunday, August 19. He decided to leave for Manila Monday night, August 20, to commemorate in Manila the 29th death anniversary of his father, the late Sen Benigno Aquino Jr. who was shot at the Manila international airport on Aug 21, 1983. The president, now 52, was then 23.


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