UNPOPULAR OPINION | Happy Father's Day, Except to Joma Sison

This Father's Day, we honor the fathers who worked hard to provide for their families, protected their children, and sacrificed for a better future.

But not every father deserves celebration.

Not to Joma Sison, the self-proclaimed father of the Philippine revolution. For decades, the armed movement he founded left a trail of grief across the country. Countless fathers buried sons and daughters who fell in ambushes and attacks, mourned those who were recruited into a conflict that promised liberation but delivered death.

Behind every casualty is a family that never recovered. A father waiting for a child who never came home. A parent forced to visit a grave instead of a graduation, a wedding, or the birth of grandchildren.

The legacy of armed struggle is measured not only in ideology and slogans, but in shattered families and lost lives. While many Filipinos celebrate the men who nurtured and protected the next generation, it is worth remembering those whose actions led generations of young Filipinos into a war that brought suffering to communities across the nation.

So this Father's Day, we salute the fathers who chose life, responsibility, and peace. Their legacy stands in stark contrast to a movement that left too many Filipino families grieving.