WHEN DANIEL BOONE SCHIRMER passed away in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month, it felt like the end of an era for many of the people that participated in the movement against Ferdinand Marcos in the United States.
Boone, along with Severina-Rivera Drew, Barbara Cort-Gaerlan and Tim and Linda McGloin, founded the Friends of the Filipino People in November 1973. Over the next 13 years, he became one of the best known US-based critics of the American policy of support for the Marcos regime.
Combining fierce determination with tremendous energy, Boone spoke at meetings and conferences throughout the United States, wrote articles demanding withdrawal of US bases from the Philippines, lobbied the US Congress to cut off aid to Marcos, and managed the Cambridge-Goddard College program on US-RP relations.
