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Smugglers and
Grave Diggers
In the rainy season of 1944, Antonio Lim sold his only pants. He would spend the rest of the war wearing only a G-string, but his father
would have a white burial shroud, just simple rough cotton, for a simple man, Lim Po.
Ibaloi men, also in G-strings, helped the Lim clan dig a grave for their old c******n. Lim Po made it to seventy six years. He would have lived much longer, married to the hilot healer
woman Vicenta, but the war was too rough, and he gave his share of food to his children and grandchildren much too often.
The family had fled from Baguio after spending many terrible nights in the Cathedral, as the city was reduced to rubble. Vicenta could not be convinced that the Japanese fighter planes would
spare the ‘House of God’. She knew they
