[Mark17]

The fall of the Philippines, the desperate defense of Corregidor and the horror of The Bataan Death March are a sad and trenchant example of the folly of military unpreparedness for any great nation.

My uncle, who I was named after, died on the Bataan death march. I have been to the Philippines many times, and I am about to retire there soon. Not Bataan, but New Bataan.

[jmacusa]

May God bless your uncle and all those who suffered in that unspeakable atrocity. I know all too well what those f'ing barbarian Japs did to those men. I pray to God your uncle didn't suffer too long.Japan's conduct in WW2 often escapes notice and now the bastards are signing a new song about how they were the victims.My late-father-in-law made it off Iwo Jima but barely, suffering a leg wound that got him the hell out of there. The bombs made it possible for him and millions of other guys to see their next birthday. My father-in-law came home, married my mother-in-law and had a bunch of daughters , one of them being my wife. I'll never forget nearly reaching through the phone to tear the guts out of some stupid peace nik who wrote a letter to the local paper calling the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings ''acts of terror by the United States'' The dumb b!tch even put her number in the published letter. After I got done with her she never did that again. I've been an avid reader and amateur historian of WW2 since I was 12. I'm 57. I knew of the "Death March''and who Claus von Stauffenberg was before pretty much before my whole generation only learned about in high school.