Reflections — My Last Walk With Lee Kuan Yew
A Pictorial Meditation Through History
A 6-Hour 3-Km Journey Through History
Lee Kuan Yew died on 23 March 2015 at 91 years old. A week-long mourning period (23–29 March 2015) was declared. With millions other Singaporeans, I walked a 6-hour long, 3-km journey to pay our last respects at Parliament House. This is my meditation and reflections during the historic journey.
For over 60 years, He was my Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990, and stayed in the government as Minister Mentor (MM) till 2011, and was thereafter appointed Senior Advisor to the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation. Lee Kuan Yew influenced, shaped and molded my life through the social, political and economic transformation of a Third World Singapore into the “First World” nation par none; characterized by economic prosperity, law and order, national security, housing for all, world-class education and full employment with social justice.
Today, 9 years later, I celebrate again his remembrance with one and all during that “Lee Kuan Yew Week”.
WALKING THROUGH HISTORY
Yesterday (24.3.2015), yet another hot Spring day;
