JULY 2 was a Saturday, the first for the month. Already by tradition, the group, acknowledged stalwarts of the communist movement in Central Luzon, held their reunion and I was honored to be invited to the occasion. The former Kilusang Makabayan (KM) firebrand, Luzvimindo David, had conveyed to me the invitation at the farewell party of some sort thrown by Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, at the Coconut Palace, a week earlier; Mindo and I were part of Barangay Binay, one of several so-called parallel groups supporting the presidential campaign of Jojo. I thought it would be nice hobnobbing with old comrades once again and I told Mindo I would attend the reunion.

I asked kumpadre Diego Cagahastian if he wanted to go with me; we shared a collective, a highly-secret one, known only to the General Command of the New People’s Army to which it was directly responsible.

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