With Beng and me were Medecins Sans Frontieres volunteer-physician Ginny Pineda Garcia and her husband the photographer Oliver Garcia and the poet Fidel Rillo. How Frankie’s story connects with Rizal and a later phase of our history brings us back to Talisay, where Frankie’s grandfather Jose, then a boy of 11 or 12, became a student of the other Pepe. Jose Aseniero went on to serve as governor of Zamboanga before the war. Charles became principal of the Industrial Trade School in Zamboanga, where he married a former student, Eugenia Enriquez. Jose Rizal’s reconstructed house in Dapitan.

Source: Philippine Star December 08, 2019 16:04 UTC