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Passing of WWII POW - Bataan Death March Survivor (Vanity)
The Buffalo News ^ | June 21, 2012 | Buffalo News

Posted on 06/21/2012 11:26:56 AM PDT by PGR88

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To: Gaffer
Are you kidding? You should be reassured - its the people who think everything is great who need to worry,

On the other hand I'm worried I've been coming across as a paranoid conspiratorialist to my family - I see leftwingers under the stairs.

Its not that they aren't there, either. Its that not everyone recognizes them:)

21 posted on 06/22/2012 5:58:54 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: PGR88

Just saw this. Incredibly, he was my scout master when I was a kid and I went to school with his son


22 posted on 11/16/2012 4:57:31 PM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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No doubt going to Heaven as he already did his tour in hell.

RIP.

23 posted on 11/16/2012 5:00:35 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Oatka

My late father, John Zale, told me the older-looking American POW pictured with what looks like a woven basket in his lap was a fellow infantryman from the 31st Inf. on Bataan. The man’s name escapes me now, but he was an older career soldier from New York City. He died in my father’s arms in the POW camp at Cabanatuan. The photo grips me every time i see it. Dad said they would have gone “all the way” and fought to the death, but the brass decided surrender on “humanitarian grounds” would be preferrable to wholesale, Alamo-style slaughter. Humanity wasn’t present there.


24 posted on 06/20/2013 3:07:36 PM PDT by Bataan son (Passing of WWII POW - Bataan Death March Survivor)
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To: Bataan son

Thanks. I always wondered how they made out.

I read a lot of that fight and more than one survivor said that had they known what was in front of them, they would have gone out Alamo-style.

I always thought we got the crap beat out of us, but in reading one definitive, IMO, book about Bataan, we put up one Helluva fight, despite the lack of food and medicine.


25 posted on 06/20/2013 4:08:12 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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Hi Oatka...thanks for looking into what the “Battling Bastards of Bataan” went through to continue protecting our country and “buying time” for recovery after Pearl Harbor in killing as many enemy troops as possible before giving their lives if they had to. My father said the defenders of Bataan “went for broke,” in that they knew they were laying their lives on the line every day.
My father was severely wounded (”gut shot” as they say)but somehow left that field hospital to rejoin his unit (Co. C/1st Battalion/31st Inf. Regiment)and fight while still stitched up. He also was one who said they would’ve rather gone down “Alamo style” if they had only known what subhuman and ungodly horrors lay ahead. How he survived it all to become the great father and caring person he was, i’ll never know. He’s been gone a year now and I just came back from visiting his humble grave...no monument or testimony there to what he survived and did.


26 posted on 07/13/2013 8:57:08 AM PDT by Bataan son (Passing of WWII POW - Bataan Death March Survivor)
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To: PGR88

Thank you from the very bottom of my heart...maybe I know who you are...your handle doesn’t give a clue, but THANKS!!


27 posted on 07/13/2013 8:57:08 AM PDT by Bataan son (Passing of WWII POW - Bataan Death March Survivor)
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