In the month of May when the rains started falling, the rice paddies became full of water. Dry season was over! Rainy season had set in. Our evacuation site was flooded! Food had become very scarce. We had been out of town for five months, eating what we had stored for rainy days. Our relatives […]
1994 Memoir – 126. Sad New Year
On the eve of the New Year, Pat’s mother died. We buried her on New Year’s Day, January 1, 1945, in the town cemetery. She died an agonizing death. May her soul rest in peace. After her burial, plans were made by us to evacuate to Barrio Paitan across the river, where the Bayabos family […]
1994 Memoir – 121. Evacuation to Bayombong
Pat, Tony, and I lived with my cousin, Dolores Bravo, and her husband, Agapita Looges, in their cute house in Dubet, Sampaloc, Manila, during my employment as Civil Service Clerk. There Betty was conceived and was born on December 2, 1943. After Betty was born, we relocated to Aning’s apartment on Avenida Rizel, Sta. Cruz, […]
1994 Memoir – 114. Back To Manila As Ex-P.O.W.
From the railroad Tutuban Station in Manila, Pat and I took a Calesa to Aoring’s Apartments on Avenida Rizal, corner Batangas Street. There I was met by Pat’s mother and Aning and the kids, Roy and Ruth. Our neighbors came to greet me, including Dr. and Mrs. Proceno Arenas, who later on became our Compadre […]
1994 Memoir – 93. The Good And The Bad People
When we were in the province of Pampanga we were met by lots of people on both sides of the road who had come from the provinces to look for surviving relatives. Along the way we passed by a house close to the road with very kind hearts throwing or pitching turnips and sugar cane […]
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 […]
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