My brother in law, God rest him, survived the Bataan Death March, never uttered one word of it to me. I knew he served, but knew nothing of his service until after he died.
A good friend of my father’s also survived the Bataan death march and a Japanese POW camp, though he had debilitating health effects from the ordeal for all of his life. To this day my mother age 90 will not buy a Japanese product if she can avoid it
Too bad they don’t teach about the suffering in Nanching the PI and Korea ((”comfort women”) and what the Japanese did to the Brits, Australians and other expats, many women and children, in Singapore when they took over