May 8, 1918 - January 25, 2011
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, … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
When I got well enough to go around, I applied for work in the Academy No. 3 for Bureau of Constabulary soldier in Gagalangin, Sampaloc, Manila. I was accepted. We were newly hired employees to work as janitors and laborers in the big … [Continue reading]
RUTH-ANN SICK Every day I brought Ruth-Ann, the younger sister of Boy (Rudy) to San Lazaro Hospital after it was diagnosed that she had serious gonorrhea infection on both eyes. It was there that I learned a job was being offered for a pay of … [Continue reading]
We subsisted with the small amount of rice and dried fish from the Red Cross and Aning’s earnings as a nightclub entertainer or hostess in Metro Grill Garden, where she and Pat worked before the outbreak of the war. Pat could not work because she … [Continue reading]
Our first trip the following morning was to the City Hall, where Pat and I reported and registered, I as a released POW, with Pat as my guarantor that I would not join the guerillas. Our next trip was to the Red Cross, where we got some “chupas” … [Continue reading]