Posted on 02/17/2010 7:37:20 AM PST by darrellmaurina
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Feb. 4, 2010) — More than 55 Missouri National Guardsmen from around the state participated in a 13-mile Bataan Memorial Death March prequalifier Jan. 23 on post. Soldiers attempted to finish in the top five of their respective category to make one of the state’s teams and advance to the 26.2-mile Bataan Memorial Death March on March 21 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This year’s event marks the 21st anniversary of the march. About 5,400 people participated in last year’s event that honors the 78,000 American and Filipino prisoners who were forced to endure a 65-mile march to a prison camp with little food and water in 1942 after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. Roughly 11,000 prisoners died on the march, and tens of thousands more died in Japanese prison camps.
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we are wise to never forget those days, even though most of the direct victims—who survived it—are no longer with us
I bet zero won’t attend.
And no doubt some ethnic pressure group will file a press release decrying the intolerance, and some lunatic white liberal will agree that this is “insensitive.” (Passive-aggressiveness Marxist style)
And the lamestream media will ignore the event.
When I was a kid, we had a neighbor who survived the Bataan Death March. Everyone in the area knew; as kids we were told by our parents to never cause any trouble at this man’s house. And, in those days, we knew if we DID cause any trouble there, WE were in really serious trouble ourselves!
The respect our parents, most of whom were WWII vets,showed toward this man and his family was obvious, even to the youngest child.
The Japs got off of that Scott free not one war crime reimbursement.
My athletic director in college survived the march. He told me a story of a Philippino who, after having been bayoneted at a rest stop, made a small berm out of sand while he died to prevent his blood from staining the uniform of an american soldier next to him.
This Empire had something in common with Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's SovUnion, and Mao's China: the Godless "progressive" mentality. The mentality that only the State matters, that people are at once perfectible and dispensable. The mentality that only the State confers rights, not God.
This is the road America is going down at present. We must remember that it only ends in evils like the Bataan Death March and Auschwitz.
Yup. They did. The clown most responsible, Masanobu Tsuji, escaped punishment and eventually wrote a best-selling memoir and became a member of the Diet.
“Yup. They did. The clown most responsible, Masanobu Tsuji, escaped punishment and eventually wrote a best-selling memoir and became a member of the Diet.”
I have read the unreal accounts of the march and have relatives in the Philippines. The Nippon Army butchered more people there than died in the first Atomic blast leaving Manila. Two bombs?? maybe 200!!
They got their payback in Tokyo and other places. Don’t sweat it.
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