Bataan, HQ, MIS
Non-stop bombing. Spent day going in and out of dug-out. If they bomb some more, I will not go to dug-out anymore.
Hungry. A handful of lugao is not enough. We are fed like chickens and we live like rats –underground.
Quarreled with Fred over the use of my towel. Silly thing. Guess we are all somewhat nervous. Nerves all on edge.
Mass will be said in our CP tomorrow morning. It’s about time. What we can’t get with guns, we might have through prayers. I will pray for cheese.
Intense fighting in eastern front. Jap thrusts in Capinpin’s sector stopped.
Checked up instructions to operations going to Nueva Ecija and Lingayen.
Bawled out by General. He claims I didn’t keep all his papers in order. “What kind of an aide are you?” he asked.
Wrote him letter of resignation. Asked for assignment to front. Fred tried to stop me. So did Leonie. They are good friends. I don’t give a damn what the general does about my resignation. He makes me sick.
Finished the rest of brandy with Fred and Leonie. Fred started talking of old days with coeds in U.P. He revealed a lot of ‘green’ incidents in U.P. campus. Nothing like co-education. Leonie started singing “We are in the Army Now.” Drinking orgy stopped by arrival of some civilians for questioning, heck.
I’ve finished questioning the fellow given to me. Leonie is still in the dug-out questioning the old man who was wearing a red shirt. He is typing with a candle on one hand. Wottalife!
(later)
Henceforth, supper will be called the “salmon-hour”, according to Lt. Tatco, mess officer. To hell with Salmon!