May 7, 1945
IT WAS 1,246 days ago today when I started scribbling the first page of this notebook. It has since then become my inseparable companion, my… Read More »May 7, 1945
IT WAS 1,246 days ago today when I started scribbling the first page of this notebook. It has since then become my inseparable companion, my… Read More »May 7, 1945
The Headquarters of General MacArthur announced today the entry of his troops in Baguio, after wiping out the Japanese defenses. It took the liberators four… Read More »April 29, 1945
This martyr city spent the most gloomy but the most hopeful Holy Week in its history. The wounds of its passion and crucifixion are still… Read More »April 1, 1945
Our new friends repeatedly asked us if we had not feared that such human slaughter would occur; if we did not have any inkling that… Read More »March 20, 1945
I visited Muntinlupa, the new prison site. Not a political or criminal prisoner was left. When the Americans were about to arrive, they were liquidated… Read More »March 18, 1945
I made a double round of the devastated city. As I viewed the kilometers of ruins and rubble, innumerable mansions, palaces and hotels burned, blown… Read More »March 17, 1945
I returned to Manila, this time for good. These officers were so accommodating that they were willing to go two hundred kilometers just to please… Read More »Manila, March 6, 1945
The last night I spent in Manila was the first that was exempt from the thunder and lightnings of war. I returned to my rural… Read More »February 27, 1945
Corregidor and Bataan of historic memories were taken with relative ease. History did not repeat itself. The small but epic peninsula was cleaned of Japanese… Read More »February 25, 1945