Ours was the only house in that area of Pandacan behind the Zamora Elementary School which was PAINTED! To Pat and me, it was a “dream house,” although it was located in the middle of a swamp full of KANGKONG and GABI plants. I bought a lot of discarded crate boards and used them to […]
1994 Memoir – 150. Our Life in Kamuning, Q.C. (1946–1947)
Our Headquarters was transferred from Lealtad, Sampaloc, to the BBB Building in Colonas, Bulacan, then to the abandoned Quonset Huts in Quezon City, left by American soldiers, near Kamuning, Quezon City. This was quite far from Avenida Rizal and so we joined Mg. Loling and Mg. Pito Rougas in their house in Quezon City. This […]
1994 Memoir – 149. Reunion with Father and His Family
As soon as mail was resumed, I wrote Father in Bangued and invited him to Manila. Right away he came with my stepmother and their son, Vicente (Enty). We all lived in the apartment of Aning and I had to double the Army rations I brought home because food was still very scarce in Manila. […]
1994 Memoir – 148. Memories of Legarda Elementary School Building, Sampaloc, Manila
During the Jap occupation, this building housed the Academy for Bureau of Constabulary Pro-Japanese Philippine soldiers trained to become non-commissioned officers. It was in this building where I worked as a janitor after I gave up my job as Cochero. This place being nearer the apartment of Aning, we returned there from Pandacan. My job […]
1994 Memoir – 147. Back to the Army
As soon as we had settled, I immediately reported to the Army Headquarters in the Legarda Elementary School Building in Sampaloc, Manila, the same building where I was a janitor of Bureau of Constabulary Academy #3 for non-commissioned officers. From there I was made to report to Camp Murphy (now Camp Emilio Aguinaldo), where I […]
1994 Memoir – 146. Return to Manila
After I got my first pay as Chief, PCAU for the Province of Nueva Vizcaya, at the end of June, 1945, Pat and I decided to return to Manila. We rode a 6×6 Army truck bound for Manila with one bicycle and few belongings. It was a convoy of two trucks scheduled to go to […]
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