(Editor's intro: Raissa Robles is a blogger-journalist and Manila correspondent of 2 foreign news organizations.)

It was a short mobile text message consisting of only nine letters that convinced President Benigno Aquino III NOT to bury the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at Libingan ng mga Bayani, two sources confirmed to me separately.

The text message was sent to PNoy’s mobile phone so you can see how close he was to that person. Not very many can reach the president via SMS.

But this was a friend and the content of the message was one that PNoy never ever knew despite their years of knowing each other.

It was the kind of text message that needed trust from both sides and the courage of the sender to expose a long-hidden shame.