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Acknowledgments This book has focused on the exploits of selected people who, by virtue of their leadership roles, embodied the struggle of leading an opposition movement. Behind them were many scores of followers, too numerous to name. But they were just as dedicated, driven by the same ideals as their leaders. They too shouldered burdens and carried on bravely. Among the exceptional individuals who figured prominently in this account, two stand high above the others. They are Raul Manglapus and Bonifacio “Boni” Gillego. As the first secretary-general of the Movement for a Free Philippines, I witnessed at first hand the truly remarkable manner in which Raul, under personally trying circumstances, held together the often fractious, restless bands of his followers. While I was doing the research on this book, he made his most private papers available to me at his Ayala Alabang home in Manila. They covered the fourteen years of his exile in the United States. Boni likewise kept a record of his exile years. And what a record—ten boxes of documents, from greeting cards to sales receipts, from secret memos to smuggled letters and meeting agendas, that in many ways traced the ebb and flow of that period. I had thought that my own collection of documents, which filled two four-drawer steel cabinets, contained enough primary documents to suit my needs. But Boni’s trove was overwhelming and a most precious resource. Beyond the physical objects that truly notable men leave for more historians to study, it is their legacy that endures. We owe them much. ...

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