This is in reaction to Prof. Lourdes Syquia Bautista’s article “Remembering our pawnshop” (Lifestyle, 10/12/14).
I feel grateful that the Inquirer published another article by Professor Bautista. (The first article was about La Naval de Manila, which came out in the Opinion section of the Inquirer’s Oct. 6, 2014, issue. I always feel very happy to read in the Inquirer materials written by old folks like me.
Time and again, I have written letters to the editor, urging us who went through many years in our history as a nation, to write about significant events in the past while we still can remember them so our youth will be aware of what we went through during our growing-up years, especially from that period we call the “pre-War,” on to the “Panahon ng mga Hapon,” to the “Liberation,” on to Edsa I and so on.
Professor Bautista (Nena to me) and I were classmates from Grade 5 until high school. We are now it seems, the only survivors from that batch.
—CONSUELO D. SISON,
elon.sison@gmail.com