Posted on 03/21/2010 6:29:21 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
For 68 years, John Love, 87, a Bataan Death March survivor, has been haunted by the memory of carrying fallen comrades to a mass grave hollowed out of a Filipino rice field. Now, a bit of history is being rewritten because of those memories.
After six months of research, The Associated Press last week corrected the caption on one of the most famous photos in its library. The image shows defeated Allied soldiers after their surrender to Japanese forces on the Philippines Bataan Peninsula in April 1942.
Is this that war that Tom Hanks was fought because the U.S. was racist?
My Dad said the Japs asked us to dance so dance we did
These American patriots gave so much for the sake of our freedom including my beloved father, David. Today we saw traitors give that away. God help us.
err wha???
I had a relative in the Batan Death March.
He came home in a box.
Many from New Mexico fought bravely and had no choice but to surrender.
Many died.
May those that gave their all rest in peace, they won their war. It is up to us now to maintain it.
My relative was from Ohio.
FDR was sending supplies to Uncle Joe in Russia
that would have helped in the Pacific
Eff these traitors. We will sluice out a lot of them in November.
Bing it. It happened.
You must not have heard dumazz Hanks talking about WWII and how it was a racist war.
Well he did. He’s just as big a libtard as most of the rest of Hollyweird.
The AP has a long history of "miscaptioning" photos.
Yeah, but according to Tom “commie” Hanks, we only fought them because we hated their skin color.
Yep, FDR almost cost us the war in the Pacific because of his BS about the war in Europe. Guadalcanal almost fell back to the Japanese because of his crap. If it wasn’t for captured food and supplies the Marines would have all starved to death simply because the navy refused to stay there and unload and FDR didn’t do anything about it and wouldn’t send planes or other needed equipment to the Marines. We were on the Canal months longer than we had to be because of his blind spot about the war in Europe VS the war in the Pacific.
My friend Will who fought at Guadalcanal does not see
it as a one or the other war. He always speaks of the necessity of both theaters.
That’s a fact, however, our main interest lay in the Pacific and the supplies that were needed should have been sent. We were fighting there before we started fighting in Europe but FDR sent 80% to Europe and 20% to the Pacific. As I said, we were lucky to win that war at all. If we had been thrown off the Canal we would have had to take another year, or more, to beat the Japanese.
We just did not need to supply Stalin.
We had to fight in both theaters.
I say that having not only one relative killed at Bataaan
but another relative was a B-17 pilot in Europe who
was killed.
Tom Hanks, of course will rewrite the whole Pacific Theater. He and the other obamanites want to rewriote history..
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