It was getting dark and starting to rain when I left the town riding on the back of the carabao pulling the sled. At last it became pitch-dark and only the lightning lit the trail on the rice paddies. All of a sudden the carabao pitched forward and I was thrown over its head into […]
1994 Memoir – 133. Evacuation To Apad
When the Japs occupying our house and the nearby houses left towards Kiañgan (where they made their last stand before surrendering), we were the only family left in the “ghost town” of Bayombong; me, Pat, Tony, Betty, and Rudy. The Jap garrison back of our house was also abandoned after the bombing of the town. […]
1994 Memoir – 128. Evacuation
EVACUATION Immediately Bayombong became a ghost town, with the Priest and the Governor leading the people across the creek west of the town into the rice fields of Barrio Apad where they evacuated. The Bayabos family fled across the river to Barrio Paitan, with us following closely behind them loaded with our three small kids […]