Follow Dr Jose Rizal

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By LEONARD D. POSTRADO
Manila Bulletin

Former Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Reynato Puno said on Saturday that the incoming Aquino leadership should show selflessness, patriotism, and love of country which, he said, were well exemplified by national hero Dr. Jose Rizal for the nation to progress.

At the wreath-laying ceremony before the monument of the hero and induction of members of the Order of the Knights of Rizal (OKR) at the Rizal Park on the occasion of Rizal’s 1 49th birth anniversary, Puno said that Aquino and his administration should emulate Rizal for the sake of political renewal and moral reform.

“Selflessness, patriotism, love of country, those were well exemplified by Rizal. The political renewal and the moral reform we have long to have will be realized only if our elected officials, as well as the whole nation, have those traits,” he stressed.

But the lessons shown by Rizal's life story, according to Puno, should be emulated not only by those people in politics, but by every Filipino.