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2011-08-17 -Obits-

Oldest Bataan Death March survivor dies at 105

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Posted by tu3031 2011-08-17 00:48|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 A truly remarkable story. True human spirit in the face of almost certain death.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-08-17 02:44|| 2011-08-17 02:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, my wife is from Nashville, Il I never knew this great man was there.

Posted by Beavis 2011-08-17 06:29|| 2011-08-17 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I had the honor of living next door to a Death March survivor for about 7 years.

Posted by Mike 2011-08-17 06:31|| 2011-08-17 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Oddly enough, though there seems to be a lot of effort to find out how many still live, I haven't seen any indications that anyone knows. I suspect that many just prefer to forget.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-17 08:40|| 2011-08-17 08:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Ghost Soldiers, by Hampton Sides, 2002

Excellent book, gets into the lives of these prisoners (not just US) in a readable fashion yet detailed enough to get the point across. Also covers the commando raid in fine detail which was reminded in the recent movie The Great Raid.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-17 10:36|| 2011-08-17 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" is a novel about a Native American (New Mexico) survivor of that kind of experience, from a unusual point of view - how to forget, constructively. There are Bataan memorials all over New Mexico.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-08-17 10:53|| 2011-08-17 10:53|| Front Page Top

#7 ...and a memorial march at White Sands Missile Range, NM every year.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-17 18:09|| 2011-08-17 18:09|| Front Page Top

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