CSF exec: ‘Young girls can emulate heroine’
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—This city’s Vice-Mayor Jimmy Lazatin yesterday urged younger generations of Fernandinos to emulate and learn from the life values of local heroine Nicolasa Dayrit.
Lazatin, who stood as acting mayor yesterday during the honor ceremonies for the local heroine, said that Dayrit provides one of the few and rare examples of Filipino women that the current generation can learn from.
“Women play a crucial role in the building of our families and communities. The younger generation of women can look into the life of Dayrit for inspiration on how to have a sense of commitment and patriotism,” Lazatin said, adding that one does not need to die for the country to be a hero.
Dayrit was born in San Fernando to well-to-do parents Florentino Dayrit, a cabeza de barangay, and Antonina Pamintuan. She was a well-educated woman during her time and was recognized as one of the best pianists in the entire province Pampanga then.
Dayrit, together with other Kapampangan ladies during the Philippine Revolution, was known to have sewn the flag of the Pampanga Battalion that was a part of the revolutionary forces in 1898, as some historical accounts say.
In spite of her wealthy upbringing, Dayrit, together with other women leaders like Praxedes Fajardo of Bacolor, also served as volunteer at the military hospital during the Filipino-American War in 1899.
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