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. […]
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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 […]
1994 Memoir – 145. Mopping-Up Operations in Town
I witnessed the triumphal entry of the Liberation Force spearheaded by guerillas into town. They killed any Japs they came across. There were hundreds of them left by the push-cart brigade that was supposed to pick them up for disposal. I saw also bloated Jap bodies in the creek as we crossed it back to […]
1994 Memoir – 144. My Liberation Job as Chief, Philippine Civilian Aid Unit
We left Apad and went back to town. I had no thoughts of going back to the Army or to the Civil Service. I felt sorry to leave behind my garden plants but I took along our two male and female chickens, which we gave to Mg. Aniang, a widow from Bangued who had a […]