[wjcsux]

I heard that most of the Bataan POW’s were from New Mexico.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When MacArthur returned to the Philippines, my uncle went with him.

Uncle Max had an 8th grade education but was damned good with a cook stove, fresh meat and anything vegetarian. He was the cook for a couple dozen MacArthur men who “returned.”

He retired as a Master Sergeant in ‘47, came home and started farming a small spread in S. Iowa. Later, he aquired a grocery store along the cobblestone mainstreet of his home town.

I will visit his grave when I visit my mom and dad in a couple of weeks at Mystic Highland Cemetery.

[Badboo]

Of the 12,000 Americans, 1,800 were from New Mexico from the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery. But for as small as a state in population at the time, that had a huge impact on New Mexico. My dad was in the 200th and did the march and 4 years in a Prison Camp.

His story here

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/francis-hall-van-buskirk-—after-bataan-survivor-embraced/article_15892118-9625-5989-9c74-701c1dc99809.html

More on the march here

http://www.bataanmuseum.com/bataanhistory/