These are the true-to-life stories of l3 Filipino student journalists during the martial law years of the Marcos dictatorship – all of them now prominent individuals in the Philippine society. CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime C. FlorCruz, former Philippine Health Secretary Manuel M. Dayrit, BSP (the Philippines’ Central Bank) Deputy Governor Diwa Guinigundo, Palanca Literary Awardees Alfonso Mendoza, Soledad Juvida and Jose Dalisay Jr, stage actress and opera singer Jay Valencia Glorioso, art magazine publisher Jack Teotico, top executive Victor Manarang, economist and book author Calixto Chikiamco, mathematics professor Roberto Verzola, and entrepreneurs Angie Castillo and Vic A. Wenceslao – all of them survived those horrible years when thousands of freedom-loving and nationalistic Filipino youth rose as one against the one-man rule of Ferdinand Marcos. Their stories are at turns horrific, funny, heartbreaking, breathtaking and informative. Those who believe that Martial Law didn’t really happen – especially today’s youth - have to just read this anthology to be transported back to that time when to protest against one-man rule meant incarceration, torture and death. Celebrated cartoonist Edd Aragon – winner of numerous awards in Australia – did the illustrations.