Eking, my shy childhood friend who became a Huk ‘berdugo’
I was taken aback when Duardo told me that Eking had joined the Huks. In 1948, Duardo, Eking and I were barefoot boys growing up in Bulac-Bulac, Majayjay, Laguna. I was 12 and in Grade 6; Duardo was 13, an errand boy and school dropout; and Eking was 15, another school dropout whose days were spent working as maghahakot using his workhorse during farm harvests.