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Since we are celebrating the 36th anniversary of the People Power Revolution this week, it is but fitting to recall the events that took place on this day in the year 1986. Allow me to reprint my late father Maximo V. Soliven’s column on that day entitled, “Victory to the People.” Three “generals” led the Filipino people to victory over the tense-ridden three days of hope and glory – Juan Ponce Enrile, Fidel Ramos – and Field Marshal Jaime Cardinal Sin. But above all, it was a triumph of people’s power. The scores of thousands of civilians – men, women and children, students, priests and nuns …