My
Own Upbringing
I consider it a great personal misfortune to lose my
father on the eve of my first birthday. I was told by my mother and uncles that
my father, a USAFEE soldier, was killed in a military encounter with the
Japanese forces a couple of years before the end of World War II in 1945.
“Being a single parent, my mother was forced to work on 2 jobs to put food on the table for me and her orphaned nephew and nieces.” This would greatly affect my childhood and my future life.
Without a father and with a mother whom I seldom see because of her work, I was left literally on my own. The lack of the basic material things in life was made worse by the lack of parental guidance and discipline on my part.
Without a father and with a mother whom I seldom see because of her work, I was left literally on my own. The lack of the basic material things in life was made worse by the lack of parental guidance and discipline on my part.
Under these circumstances, while I became
independent at an early age while trying to solve my own problems, I made many
blunders that would affect my later life because of the frailties of a young
mind and the absence of guidance and discipline.
