Kris Aquino Delivers Speech for Her Mom to the Filipino People
Nation bids farewell to Cory
MANILA — Former president Corazon “Cory” Aquino was laid to rest Wednesday with full military honors in a simple tomb next to her assassinated husband, after an eight-hour funeral procession joined by hundreds of thousands of supporters who hailed her as an exemplar of moral leadership.
The Aquino family rejected offers by Arroyo for a state funeral, but the Armed Forces gave full military honors.
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Shortly before reaching the mausoleum where she will be laid to rest, pallbearers stopped as military honor guards executed a 21-gun salute. Her coffin was transferred afterwards to a waiting caisson bedecked with flowers that was pulled by a military jeep towards her tomb.
About 600 priests and nuns linked arms around the Aquino mausoleum at the Manila Memorial Park to keep back the crowd who followed the flatbed truck with her flag-draped coffin on its
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