While eating our meal under a big tree, I was startled by a noise from dried leaves nearby. I looked around and came face to face with a big forest lizard. I got my rifle and fired at it. This alarmed the whole camp. They traced the shot to me. I got a severe reprimand. […]
Archives for April 2017
1994 Memoir – 78. Our Retreat To Bataan
We spent the whole day loading our truck convoy, consisting of all kinds of vehicles, including old buses commandeered for the trip to Bataan. Manila was declared as an OPEN CITY to free it from all military objectives. And so we had to get out as soon as possible. Our convoy was supposed to start […]
1994 Memoir – 77. World War II Broke Out
Pat’s mother and older sister, Aning, with her two children, Rudy and Ruth, spent their weekend with us from their apartment in Rizal Avenue, Manila. I left them for my work on Monday morning, December 8, 1941, not knowing that Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japs. Upon arrival in the Army Headquarters, the […]
1994 Memoir – 76. Life As a Newly Married Couple
Before we got married, I made arrangements with a co-soldier, Pedro Tameray, who was a Corporal like me, for us to live with him and his wife in a small house on Loreto Street, Sampaloc, Manila. The house consisted of two elevated rooms and a kitchen. Pedring and Remy, his wife, occupied the dining room, […]
1994 Memoir – 68. As A Student In F.E.U. (Far Eastern University)
After one year as a student of Stenotype and Bookkeeping, I was undecided about what course I would take in college. I wanted to take medicine, but there was no school for medicine at night then, and only professional students were taking medicine. Because of my experience in the Bureau of Public Works, I wanted […]
1994 Memoir – 67. Birthday In Antipolo
During my stay in Manila, I always celebrated my birthdays in Antipolo, Rizal, where a lot of people went on pilgrimage in the month of May. Scores of buses, cars, jeepneys, and trucks traveled slowly, bumper-to-bumper, up and down the hills to Antipolo on weekends. (1937-1971) On my birthday celebration in May, 1939, I invited […]