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| Portrait of Eddie Garcia by Tropicana Studio, circa 1950s |
More on Eddie Garcia:
Growing up in a farm
He was born Eduardo Verchez Garcia in Juban, Sorsogon on May 2, 1929, the eldest child of Antonio Garcia, son of a Captain in the Spanish Army and a Kapampangan from Macabebe, Pampanga who settled in Buhi, Camarines Sur. His mother is Vicenta Verchez, from Juban, Sorsogon. Eddie had four siblings: Mila, Efren, Menchu, and Santiago. Santiago would later become an Assistant Director to Fernando Poe, Jr.
As Eddie once recounted in an interview with Emmie G. Velarde: “(I)grew up in a farm, running after chickens, watching the chickens lay their eggs, swimming in a nearby river when the summer heat made the farm animals too lazy to play with (me)...When I was a child, my mother required all of us to be at the dinner table at a certain time. I almost always followed this, because she blew up a storm whenever anyone disobeyed. All my playmates weren’t worth my parents’ displeasure. I knew how to follow rules as a kid.”
After spending his elementary years at the Sorsogon Elementary School, he was sent to San Beda College in Manila where he finished high school and spent three years in college working towards attaining an A.B. Psychology degree.
Joining the army
He would have wanted to become a lawyer but his plans were derailed when he was drafted into the Philippine Army in 1946, joining the Philippine Scouts, a unit of the Philippine Army which was assigned to the United States Army Philippine Department. Eddie was stationed in Okinawa, Japan and served with the occupation forces thereat.
In 1947, President Harry Truman disbanded the Philippine Scouts as an official element of the U.S. Army and was finally disbanded in 1948.
According to Eddie, in an interview with Ricky Lo in 1984,he was ready to return to Okinawa to enlist as a CID agent. With his good record in the Philippine Scouts, the Provost Marshall was to recommend him to go to an officers’ school in the U.S., but fate had other plans. To honor his contributions for his service to the Philippine Military, the Philippine Military Academy Marangal Class of 1974 adopted him as one of its members.
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