Rodolfo Biazon

<p>Rodolfo Biazon is erroneously regarded as the goat of his class at the Philippine Military Academy. The last cadet in the order of merit the bottom-dweller of his batch. But his rise from poverty to become a defender of democracy and a senator of the republic just might make him the PMA GOAT or the greatest of all time.</p><p><br></p><p>In 1992 Biazon became the first PMA alumnus to be elected senator. This eldest child of a baker and a laundry woman achieved this feat one year after he reaced the pinnacle of his outstanding military career--as the 21st chief of staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He faced enormous odds to get to that point starting from the grinding poverty of a childhood spent in Sangley Point's shadow during World War II when he turned into a man overnight after he lost his father a day after his eighth birthday.</p><p><br></p><p>A working student throughout his elementary and high school days juggling odd jobs while also plugging away in his family's home-based laundry trade he would finally dind his life's purpose after he entered the PMA at 21. It marked the beginning of three and half decades of a stellar military service fittingly followed by a distinguished legislative career that spanned almost a quarter century.</p><p><br></p><p>This book examines the incredible life and times of a soldier who stood tall as an exemplar extraordinaire of PMA's bedrock principle of civilian supremacy over the military--the same solon and statesman who will leave behind an astonishing legacy as arguably the fiercest most prolific and most accomplished defender of Philippine democracy during the post-EDSA years and beyond.</p>