Controversy over flag colors

Seeing flag vendors on Roxas Boulevard and Edsa cor Ayala this week made me wonder why people don’t display flags on June 12 as much as they used to decades ago. Hindi na uso.
My column today relates the 1985 controversy over the blue field in the flag: navy or sky blue? Or something in between that became the norm after 1986 Edsa People Power.


One of the memorable moments in my colorful past was being designated implementor of Republic Act No. 8491, better known as the “flag law.” I lea...