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Honolulu, HI • February 1981. Found on FamilySearch: My Lolo Marciano's Paper Trail — Ligao, Albay to Honolulu to Vallejo. marciano perseveranda, juan perseveranda, valeriana presenta, ligao albay, honolulu immigration 1981, vallejo california, manuel perseveranda us navy, familysearch philippines, filipino genealogy, alien case file. GENEALOGY • HONOLULU, HI • FEBRUARY 1981 Found on FamilySearch: My Lolo Marciano's Paper Trail — Ligao, Albay to Honolulu to Vallejo Three U.S. government records place my grandfather in Ligao, Albay in 1909, arriving in Honolulu in 1981, and gone in Vallejo by 1992 — independently confirming the same parents his younger brother Emiliano's 1912 baptismal record already named. Thanksgiving, Vallejo, California — November 28, 1985. Left to right: Melvin, J.F. (home on break from his freshman year at UC Davis), Marciano, Joy (a Hogan High senior that year), and Kristine. I...

Vallejo CA Filipino diaspora US Israel Iran war impact gas prices remittances OFW Middle East crisis March 2026 Bay Area Filipino community. FILIPINO DIASPORA • MARCH 2026 US–Israel–Iran War Escalates: What Filipino American Families Across the USA Need to Know An intelligence brief on the conflict's real-world impact — military deployments, OFW safety, remittances, and what it means for Filipino American communities from the Bay Area to the East Coast. VALLEJO, CA — March 20, 2026. Here in the SF Bay Area, where Filipino families are deeply tied to both the U.S. military and the Middle East workforce, the escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran doesn't feel distant — it feels personal. It shows up in group chats. In missed calls. In the quiet anxiety of waiting for one message from abroad. This brief preserves the full scope of what is happening right now, while grounding it in wha...

Rest In Peace Nicanor Soro Putong. Uncle Nick's viewing. November 25, 2024. Vallejo, CA. Skyview Memorial Lawn nicanor,soro,putong,skyview,viewing,vallejo,november 25,filipino,retired,us navy,rip,places,life,death,

Rest In Peace, Uncle Nick. June 27, 1937 - October 25, 2024  

Remembering my uncle, Tito Maning. Photo credit to Tita Lila Tita Lila: I need to teach you and Jian to scan photos. You and I have the same HP printer/scanner. We can have Jian scan old family photos for better quality (which I can further edit and enhace for our archives/website). This Veterans Day, remember those who gave everything for this country. Not those who sold this country for cheap eggs. pic.twitter.com/at1do1BwSh — 💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 (@herotimeszero) November 11, 2024

San Diego, California • February 2024. Hogan Spartans: A Navy Legacy at the USS Midway. uss midway, fil-am, hogan spartans, san diego, navy, filipino-american, travel, glenn pingol, rudy jandoc, gloria arzaga, vallejo, us navy, military. SAN DIEGO • FEBRUARY 2024 Hogan Spartans at the USS Midway: Honoring a Navy Legacy in San Diego For Rudy Jandoc and Gloria Arzaga — children of Retired US Navy veterans — walking the decks of the USS Midway was more than a reunion stop. It was a tribute to the Filipino-American fathers who served. Day 3 of the Hogan Spartans reunion cruise brought the group to one of San Diego's most iconic landmarks — the USS Midway Museum, a decommissioned aircraft carrier now permanently moored along the Embarcadero. For a group bound by decades of shared history in Vallejo, California, the visit carried a meaning that went far beyond tourism. Two members of the group, Rudy Jandoc and Glori...

Photo with my old neighbor and high school buddy before he spoke onstage at Vallejo Pista Sa Nayon.  Butch's family and mine lived two houses away before we moved to a new house. The admiral and my sister were in the same year at Springstowne Junior & Hogan Senior High School. Way to rep Vallejo.  Great to see you Butch! Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 

Vallejo, CA • November 2022. Rear Admiral Leonard "Butch" Dollaga — Vallejo native, Hogan High School Class of 1986, U.S. Naval Academy graduate, two-star admiral, submariner. One of the highest-ranking Filipino Americans in U.S. Navy history. Veterans Day speech in Vallejo, California. PinoyBuilt coverage. The Vallejo Kid Who Commanded Submarines: Rear Admiral Butch Dollaga Comes Home Hogan Class of '86. U.S. Naval Academy '90. Two-star admiral. Thirty-four years in the silent service. And on Veterans Day, he came back to the city that made him — two houses from where the PinoyBuilt editor grew up. By J.F.R. Perseveranda · PinoyBuilt · November 11, 2022 · Updated March 2026 [INSERT HERO IMAGE: RADM Dollaga at Vallejo Veterans Day ceremony · 1200×675 · compressed] ★★ Two-Star Rear Admiral 34 Years of Navy Service 1986 Hogan High School, Vallejo 1990 ...