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| Oldest Bataan Death March survivor dies at 105 |
| 2011-08-17 |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 ...and a memorial march at White Sands Missile Range, NM every year. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-08-17 18:09 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #2 Wow, my wife is from Nashville, Il I never knew this great man was there. |
| Posted by: Beavis 2011-08-17 06:29 |
| #1 A truly remarkable story. True human spirit in the face of almost certain death. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2011-08-17 02:44 |