Very early in the morning, policemen went around the town announcing a meeting of all persons at the town plaza to celebrate RIZAL DAY. It was an order to be obeyed! I left Pat with our kids and joined the big crowd around the plaza, on December 30, 1944. The program barely started when across […]
1994 Memoir – 124. Lined Up To Be Executed
Pat’s mother learned of a faith healer outside of the town at the side of Bañgan hill before reaching Busilac. Desperate for any remedy, she made arrangements for her healing ritual, which consisted of chicken and pork together with spices to be offered by the healer to her gods for their help in healing her […]
1994 Memoir – 123. Pat’s Mother And Her Cancer
CANCER without morphine or cobra venom to deaden the pain is a very agonizing disease. Nana Ulli cried and agonized day and night until she died. Pat did not suffer like her because she was very well cared for by Dra. Lourdes Loreto in the St. Joseph’s Hospital (in Tampa, Florida) with her MEDICAID insurance […]
1994 Memoir – 122. Life In The Province
I was made to report to the Governor of the Province as Agent for Food Production Campaign. When Gov. Dimetrio Juirino learned that I was a Stenographer, he gave me a desk in his office as his Private Secretary and did not allow me to go out campaigning for food production, because food in that […]
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 – 120. Civil Service Clerk
Way back in 1939 I took a Civil Service test for Federal Clerk. I passed it and got an equivalent grade as second grade Civil Service employee. I could have been employed in the U.S. Naval Base in Olongapo or in the Air Base in Angeles as a Federal Clerk-Stenographer, like a co-soldier of mine […]
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