It was my usual routine to go to town to search for food, even in abandoned gardens or yards when no planes were overhead. With my jute sack, I roamed the streets for bananas, papayas, coconuts, or anything “eatable.” My eyes popped wide open when I saw papaya and banana trees full of fruit inside […]
1994 Memoir – 130. Japs In Town
Major Susuki, the Battalion Commander, was very kind to us. He gave our kids biscuits and shared his food with us. He said that he had a bicycle store in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, before the war. All the time he was a Jap spy in the Philippines then. It shows that Japan had plans of […]
1994 Memoir – 97. A P.O.W. Dies By My Side
Before we went to sleep, a P.O.W. by my side confided to me that he was too weak and couldn’t make it until the following day. He told me his name, his address, and his parents’ name to inform them what happened to him as a P.O.W. When I woke up the following morning, he […]
1994 Memoir – 80. MEMORIAL DAY, May 29, 1995
While I was writing about the incident with the gun and the lizard in Bataan, I digressed from the topic and began to think about Memorial Day. I am thinking about my not half-, but full brother, Felix, who died in the Capas Concentration Camp in May, 1942. He was born on May 18, 1920. […]
1994 Memoir – 56. Jojo of Abra
When we were in the house of Mg. Solome, Eling came to see Jojo as Abra’s beauty queen and remarked to us that she is very beautiful! Groaciana Barreras, our neighbor and former classmate, also came to see Jojo and also appreciated her beauty. She also recalled when she got promoted with me from Section […]
Thanksgiving Day – November 24, 1994
Hello everyone, Chris here. This journal entry from Thanksgiving in 1994 was among Lolo’s papers, so I thought it would be nice to see it again now in 2016. Today is Thanksgiving Day. I am on duty as Courtesy Officer (Security Guard) in the LANDINGS APARTMENTS at the corner of Sligh Avenue and Habana Streets […]