It is really amazing how people can adjust themselves for survival. Without electricity, running water, telephone, TV, radio, stores, vehicles, police, government officials running the community, schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, doctors, dentists, medicine, matches, spices, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, barber shop, etc., etc., that are found in modern communities, people can still survive like […]

In the early days of June, 1945, we could hear the death roar of artillery shells, mortar shells, bombs, and unending staccato of gunfire west of Barrio Apad where the holed-in Japs were mercilessly pounded by liberating American forces following the landing of Gen. MacArthur in Leyte on October 20, 1944. The Japanese were pushed […]

The heavy rains flooded the rice paddies where we had constructed our improvised shacks and dug our air-raid shelters. Most of the daytime hours were spent inside our dugouts as the U.S. planes bombed and strafed the retreating Japs passing the town and hiding in the abandoned houses and wrecked buildings. When the rains weakened […]