RE: My AMAZING father was born 100 years ago today: a story of US corruption & betrayal ๐ฐ
I am deeply grateful to you for taking the time to respond here in such detail, and please know that I never take anything personally. Especially from a story which is more a combination of my perspective with his perspective... which certainly doesn't make it absolute truth. Though I enjoy believing it is as close to the truth as I am ever going to get, now that most people involved are gone.
Interesting to hear the idea that it may have been him who was one of the whistleblowers. This is a new thought for me and i have sat with it for a little while. I find myself wondering what was in it for him if this were the case? They took everything from him and ensured he was unable to set up shop anywhere else.
The story he told me was that if it were not for a Swiss bank account, he would have had nothing... and most likely I wouldn't have even been born. Perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye? Could it be that the money in this account was not saved by himself? And that the money was in fact a payment of some kind? For sure he wasn't the kind of guy to save for the future... so I will look into this now as best I can.
Am conscious it is only my ego which wants to walk my fathers steps in the Philippines though ironically it was him who instilled the curiosity I have. He told me over and over that it was the most beautiful country in the world, full of the most beautiful people in the world. And then told me never to go there! Which is like being handed a bowl of 'the most tasty food in the world'... only to be told you can never taste it!
One day we will visit. And perhaps it will be for a whole different reason. Like the 1st Philippine Steemit meetup!!!??? ๐
Now that would be a much less ego based, positive reason to arrive there with my family ๐๐ป
Speaking of Swiss bank accounts, the Marcoses stashed a lot of their ill-gotten wealth there. A sizeable portion of it probably belonged to your father, Sam.
As for visiting the PHL, I don't think anyone has heard of the Stonehill name in modern times. I don't think your presence will be a threat to anyone here so you're very likely to be safe but just to be sure , best to work under the radar.
I appreciate your words here very much. There is no fear of visiting any more and fingers crossed I will be there soon enough :)
Leaving thoughtful replies is the only thing I know how to do here haha! I would really be interested in reading what you unearth. I do hope that perspective would yield something fruitful towards the truth. Do keep me posted if you find out anything new about this, I'm quite invested now.
There are always multiple sides to the story, and if we ever hope to learn the absolute truth, we can't only rely on what we would prefer to know. I'm glad you're open to learning about anything and everything involving this.
I think there was already a first Philippine Steemit meetup, but I'm not sure. It's hard to keep track of the firsts these days, what with everyone proclaiming they're the official representatives of an entire country haha! Here on Steemit, I feel like I'm a man without a country, completely out of the loop of the goings on of my countrymen, so yeah..
I do hope you and your family get to visit though. If anything, at least to prove your father right about the beauty of the country :D