Module 4 "Apo on the Wall"

What I Can Do

Interview
Interview:

It was my Grandmother who I had interviewed.

I asked her, "La, when was the Martial Law happened?" I translated
it to tagalog so she could understand it better.

She said, if she wasn't mistaken, it happened back in

September 21, 1972. Then she began staring at the blue ,
doing a deep remembering.
She said, "It was all selfishness, declaring Martial Law was
good for our nation yet, it wasn't for us. It wasn't good for
Filipino citizens." I nodded as a response.
"It was a horror that still haunts many Filipinos up to this
day," she went on. "The armies of the Philippines were the
ones who were managing the people and implementing
different rules , even it was against us.

"People felt so helpless that time, and for me, Marcos didn't
become a good leader..." she trailed off. "Because it was just our
nation which was his priority, while the citizens living on it, was
not." She then sighed.
People lived with conditions.
They had curfews, media
censorship and suspension of civil
and politjcal rights.