"What makes Pinatubo such a gripping story is the number of amazing coincidences that accompanied the eruption.
Pinatubo erupted in the very same year the (US) bases agreement was set to expire. The first of the eruptions
happened on Independence Day, and Pinatubo really set us free from 100 years of dependence on the United States."

"Another amazing coincidence is that a typhoon crossed the region at the very hour of the climatic eruption."

"Kapampangans aged 20 years and below don't have a memory of Pinatubo, which is
why we need to remind them of how the volcano changed our lives."

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- quoted from Robby Tantingco, director of the Holy Angel University's Center for Kapampangan Studies who wrote the book:
"Pinatubo: The Volcano in Our Backyard" to be launched on June 14, 2011, 5:00 PM, at the Academic Lecture Hall of the St. Joseph Building.