Magsaysay remembers father, vows reforms in Senate bid

The family of the late president Ramon Magsaysay commemorated his 56th death anniversary with a breakfast in a Cebu City restaurant.

The late president Magsaysay was headed home to his family in Manila from a Cebu trip 56 years ago to join them in their Sunday morning ritual of having breakfast together and hearing Mass. But news of the late president’s plane crash instead reached them, said former senator Ramon “Jun” Magsaysay Jr.

Magsaysay, who is running for the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, said he was 18 years old when his father’s plane crashed at the peak of Mt. Manunggal in Balamban town in western Cebu at 1 a.m. on March 17, 1957.

“This is the breakfast which we were supposed to have but never happened,” said Magsaysay shortly after sharing breakfast with his son, Paco, grandson, Jaime, and some friends in a Cebu City restaurant early morning yesterday.

Members of the Magsaysay family were in Cebu to join the commemoration of the late president’s 56th death anniversary in Mt. Manunggal, Balamban town, Cebu.

“He (my father) was a reformist and I am trying to be a reformist (during my Senate days). He also practices humility and the willingness to listen. ,” he said. /Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac