Happy 4th of July To All Americans And Filipinos^^  

Technically, July 4 is our Independence Day because the July 12, 1898 declaration of independence of Emilio Aguinaldo in Malolos, Bulacan was never internationally recognized. And you're right, Neil, a lot of our youngsters today are not aware of that.

I was gonna leave an image comment on your profile page only to find out that after a 2 week absence here in Mylot they still haven't fixed the bug. So anyways thanks for the friendship request.

What?A bug?Maybe that is the reason why I cannot add HTML codes in my profile.Been figuring it out for a while.Thanks for accepting me too.Way more to go here on mylot.See you around.

If you're trying to post html banners, just press space or enter after pasting your html code, then exit edit mode. That's a known bug from last year. The new bug is the one where we can't post image on the friends comments box.

Symbolically, you're right June 12 was our Independence Day. But in reality we didn't gain independence on that day because if I recall it right Spain immediately ceded the Philippines, Guam and some other territories to the US. So we were passed from one colonial master to another and the declaration of independence at Malolos was just a symbolic revolutionary gesture.

We did gain out Independence during that time... but it was just not recognized by the international community... immediately after the declaration... Pres. Aguinaldo send representatives to different countries... even to the so called Treaty of Paris... but since during that time Spain was the fading superpower and the US was the upcoming superpower... no nation in the world dared to give recognition to an archiepelago that is the object of the Spanish-American war...

So the representatives of Pres. Aguinaldo were ignored... not met... and left outside the door waiting for nothing... but for an ordinary Filipino during that time... thought and believed that we did gain our Independence... but it was short lived...

Right. Of course, it didn't help either that the Filipino revolutionaries were still factionalized during that declaration, because it was only about a year or so since Bonifacio was executed and he still had "silent" sympathizers within the revolutionary movement. So it was easy for anyone else to ignore us. The story of our life I guess. We were factionalized then, we still are until today.

Emotions were quite high during that time... and this was like a period in our history when we were united as one... i have all my respect for Andres Bonifacio... but even if he was the father of the Katipunan... Emilio Aguinaldo was the one who led us to victory...