The PC and EDSA: A Paean to the Peers of ‘86

Auxiliary to people power was the veteran Philippine Constabulary, whose finest hour it was.

Their official home, Camp Crame, was the focus of the EDSA defiance. Constabulary troops were on the highway, at the Ortigas junction, in Greenhills, to defend the masses on EDSA from the marines in Fort Bonifacio, the army battalions in Tanay, the air force in Villamor.

Those four days of EDSA had the PC capturing the government’s radio and TV facilities. Expeditionary troops to reinforce Camp Crame rushed in from PC commands in Cagayan, Bicolandia and Mindanao. It was the PC who seized and secured the airports in Manila. And they, too, who blocked the approaches from north and south into the Metro area, to prevent the entry of government reinforcements.

And when Cory Aquino and Doy Laurel were sworn in as President and Veep of a restored democratic republic, it was the PC who ringed the Club Filipino, to ensure the safety of the new government.

Through nine decades the PC kept the peace in the Philippines pastoral, as nobly and heroically as they could. But EDSA was their Finest Hour.

This book is a paean to that hour.

Published in 1992 by AboCan Enterprises

111 pages