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Evelyn "I had a dog named Spot. And we would go down and get water. While we were getting water, I could hear the bomb coming. And so the dog and me went and hide under big stones. So, later, the dog and me went back up to the nipa (hut), and everybody was gone. They were afraid because the Japanese were bombing. So I look for them. And I found them under a pele (nut) tree, hiding!" |
"And then they were putting men in prison in a rice mill. We tried to sneak food to the men. Because my Dad was there too in the mill. And the youngsters in the barrio, we all got together and we pretend like we were going to church. But then we would sneak there behind the rice mill and then in the window we would throw some cookies. Because they wouldn’t let them eat and they put them there for a week, I think, without food."
Evelyn was born in the Philippines in the mid- 1920s. She married a U.S. service man. In the 1950s she came to the United States seeking healthcare for one of her nine children. That child did not survive but she is very proud of the accomplishments of the other eight.
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