Volume 11 , Issue 13

Bataan Memorial Death March

Marvin says, "Sunday, over 5000 individuals from all 50 states, as solo and team marchers, will take part in the 20th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range Headquarters.

The event honors and remembers the events of April 1942, when 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers began what became known as the Bataan Death March, with about 54,000 completing the march. At the present time there are only 3 remaining survivors locally. I have been blessed to have come to know 2 who were survivors.

If anyone is unfamiliar with the Bataan Death March, the movie, The Great Raid which came out a couple of years ago chronicles one event of the ordeal these men and women suffered. A Google search will produce many sites with information about Bataan."
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