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Mrs. Lourdes Flor was a very rich school teacher who claimed that her husband was with the merchant marines as an overseas sailor. But we never saw her with her husband. She had a uniformed driver who opened and closed the doors of her cars for her. She had a BUICK, a PONTIAC, and a […]

Under the rotation system of every three years, I was transferred from the P.C. School to the Judge Advocate Station, Headquarters, P.C., in Crame as Chief, Military Affairs Branch, handling all Court Martial cases of officers and enlisted men, where all officers were lawyers. I was then a Captain, Regular Force, Infantry Branch of Service. […]

Very often I was designated as the Tactical Officer for the enlisted men in their school. I conducted inspection of their barracks every Saturday and drilled them. I was accountable for their discipline. One student, S/Sgt. Regita, a famous movie actor who goes by the name RED NAVARRO, went on AWOL (absence without leave). He […]

When Ramon Magsaysay became Secretary of National Defense under Pres. Quirino, he found out that members of the armed forces, especially those in the P.C., needed training for more efficient public service. He ordered the retraining of all P.C. officers and noncommissioned officers in Camp Crame. Officers and enlisted men from all over the Philippines […]

We already had a car when we lived inside Crame which Pat and I used for shopping. Hence, Tony did not resume his selling “toron” as before. My transfer from Muñoz to Crame made me a Constabulary officer from an Army officer as my branch of military service. I became a “Constaboy” again! (Now — […]

Originally I wanted to become an Engineer because of my experience in Kiañgan as Copatay timekeeper, but I became a lawyer instead, as per God’s will when I tossed a coin and said: Head, Law; tail, Engineering School. It was head! Now I wanted Tony to realize my ambition to become an Engineer and so […]