Cory's Funeral Covoy in Ayala Avenue

MANILA, Philippines—For one last time, Corazon Aquino returned to the scenes of her greatest political triumphs.
And as it was more than two decades ago, she drew multitudes who showered her with cheers, confetti and even tears in a huge outpouring of love and gratitude for the woman who led them in their fight to win back their freedom.
Ayala Avenue in Makati, where Aquino marched to defy a dictator in 1983, and EDSA (Epifanio delos Santos Avenue), where the People Power Revolution she inspired was born, turned into seas of yellow for one brief afternoon.
The tens of thousands that swarmed the two historic avenues Monday paid homage to Aquino as her flag-draped casket—on a flatbed truck bedecked with yellow and white blossoms—passed through en route to Manila Cathedral, where the last two days of the Aquino wake will be held before her funeral on Wednesday.
The streets fluttered with yellow ribbons and, as they did two decades ago, reverberated with chants of “Cory! Cory!”
The whole metropolis was “in a state of grace,” said Manila’s Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo.
Pabillo was overwhelmed by the public outburst of affection for the 76-year-old widow, who died after a battle with colon cancer on Saturday.
The country’s biggest television networks, GMA 7 and ABS-CBN, carried live telecasts of the procession. In contrast, the government TV NBN was running a different show—an episode of “Concert at the Park"—as Aquino’s casket arrived at the cathedral.

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