My good friend, Jon Melegrito, tagged me on Facebook with his note: "Teach Your Children Well" and photos of our kids at the SOS March which touched my heart. Tito Jon, (Tito is a Tagalog word meaning "Uncle" which I prefer to call him as a sign of respect and also because he is a family to me) is an APALA-DC founding member who works at AFSCME. Here's his note:
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Teach Your Children Well by Crosby, Stills and Nash keeps playing in my head as I watch the Filipino teachers of PGCPS and APALA activists gather in the Ellipse, the kids of Katrina Abacar and Maria Angala frolic in the grass, Jo Quiambao gathers petitions, Katrina Dizon and sister Sam ham it up. And I think of my daughter, Desiree, who taught her parents well. Please listen to the song as you look at these pictures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtRsSmU-6k
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You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.
Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
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Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
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And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.
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Counter Melody To Above Verse:
Can you hear and do you care and
Cant you see we must be free to
Teach your children what you believe in.
Make a world that we can live in.
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Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picked, the one you'll know by.
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Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtRsSmU-6k
Matt Damon's Headliner Speech
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