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Post by 79thfoot on Jun 27, 2010 3:03:20 GMT -5
Okay, perhaps I'm just splitting hairs here but I kinda get ticked off whenever someone taking pictures of the historically uniformed police guys in Intramuros refers to them as Guardia Civil. It would be more accurate to refer to them perhaps as Revolutionary Army soldiers since they're in rayadillo and seem to have their ranks based on the Revolutionary Army shoulder-board pattern (as opposed to the Spanish chevrons). It could even be taken as a statement that, even if the Revolutionary Army was not allowed to enter Manila in 1898 they country won its independence in the end and now is guarded by her own sons and not those of a foreign conqueror.
If they're going to call them Guardia Civil, why not just dress them up in the blue and guinit helmet?
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