PNoy on Ferdinand Marcos heroes' cemetery burial

President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) has not made his position yet about late President Ferdinand Marcos' burial at Libingan ng mga Bayani.

"Anything I say on the matter sasabihin decided on a subjective basis rather than on an objective basis. We would want to spare our country from that," Aquino said yesterday. "I have a government official whom I will task to study (it)." PNoy told GMA News.

The son of the late President Marcos, Sen. Bongbong earlier said on reports that it is the right of his father whose remains have lain in state inside a refrigerated crypt at his family’s ancestral home since 1993, to be finally buried at the heroes' cemetery.

"We've always said that it's his right as a former president, as a former soldier, as a bemedalled soldier, that he be buried in Libingan ng mga Bayani, and it's very clear that that is his right," Senator Bongbong Marcos told reporters on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, PNoy admitted that Marcos’ burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani would implicate many things.

“Should it be in recognition of his being a soldier during World War II, should it be because he was former commander in chief, should it be because he was a former president," the President said.

“Of course there will be a sector, a significant sector, especially we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of EDSA (People Power Revolution) by next week, na nagsasabi na bibigyan natin ng honor as commander in chief and as president, hindi ba tinaggal iyung mandato sa kanya ng taumbayan. So paano magkakaroon ng entitlement," PNoy added.

DND issues statement on its former secretary Angelo Reyes's death

The government agency that once had him as secretary, The Department of National Defense (DND) issued a statement on the tragic death of Angelo Reyes on February 8, 2011. Through the government's website, DND said

“The news on the tragic death of former DND Secretary Angelo Reyes comes as a shock to the Department of National Defense and the Armed Forces of the Phillippines.”

The Department added, “Secretary Voltaire Gazmin together with the officials, officers, men and women of the Department conveys their deep sympathies and condolences to the family of former Secretary Reyes.”

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Ex-AFP Chief Angelo Reyes commits suicide

Former Defense Secretary and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief Angelo Reyes died today, February 8, 2011 after shooting himself in front of his mother's grave at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City.

Reyes was 65 years old.

According to an Inquirer.net report, Reyes was rushed to Quirino Memorial Medical Center to revive him at 7:45AM. He was proclaimed dead on arrival by the doctors who resuscitated him.

Health Secretary Enrique Ona confirmed that Reyes died of gunshot wound to the heart. He added that the cause and the kind of gun used have not been determined and are still under investigation.

In the same report, the Health Secretary said:

"He was brought here to the emergency room, wala nang pulso at di na humihinga. Nilagyan ng tubo at nag-resuscitation, swero, binigyan ng gamot. But after 45 minutes, which means that at 8:32 a.m., talagang wala na (without pulse and not breathing. He was tubated and resuscitated, put on IV. But after 45 minutes, which means that at 8:32 a.m., he’s really gone)."

Here are more excerpts from the Inquirer.net report:

Reyes, who earlier suffered a mild stroke before the congressional investigations on the alleged AFP financial irregularities, said he could not take anymore the smear campaign against his name and his family.

“Not my family,” he said.

Reyes, who loved his mother very much when she was still alive, earlier told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in an interview that he would never do anything that would besmirch the name of “my good mother.”

Reyes, a graduate of Philippine Military Academy Class ’66, was AFP chief under President Joseph Estrada, and secretary of defense, interior and local government, and energy during the term of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from 2001 to 2003. He graduated as the class valedictorian in high school and was among the top ten graduates of the PMA.

He went on to obtain two masteral degrees, namely: Masters in Business Administration from Asian Institute of Management in 1973 and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1991. He also took up International Defense Management Course in Monterey, California in 1983.

In 1987, he graduated No. 1 in Trust Operations Management Course conducted by the Trust Institutes Foundation of the Philippines at the Ateneo Business School which eventually earned him a scholarship to the Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.