Tigbauan, Iloilo (August 28, 2017) -- This town, 20 kilometers south of Iloilo City honors its Communist son, Jose Aquilino Tronco Tangente with local and national heroes today, celebrated nationwide as “National Heroe’s Day.”
Town employees led by Mayor Suzette Alquisada, young people, teachers and kins of Tangente laid flowers to the foot of the monument of national hero Jose Rizal followed by the unveiling of the marker four meters away which sums up the life and struggle of Tangente, born on October 9, 1949.
Two representatives from the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation, Maria Cristina Rodriguez and Susan D. Macabuag who is in charge of the Bantayog Museum, attended the ceremonies. The foundation. a private entity, maintains a park in Quezon City called Bantayog ng mga Bayani which has memorial walls where the names are etched of some 300 persons who died fighting the Marcos dictatorship whether in the legal opposition or the armed resistance. Tangente was installed there November 30 last year.
Tangente was already swept by the tide of youth unrest in the early ‘70s while he was studying for the priesthood under the Archdiocese of Jaro. He returned to Iloilo at the onset of the declaration of martial law by dictator Ferdinand Marcos September 21, 1972. He was then 2nd year at the Loyola School of Theology in Metro Manila, two years shy of ordination,
He was killed in combat with soldiers from the Army 47th Infantry Batallion in Pandan, Antique, August 28, 2017, incidently exactly 30 years to his recognition today in this town of some 65,000 people. ##
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