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  • John Love, Bataan Death March survivor, dies at 91

    03/23/2014 7:24:42 AM PDT · by DFG · 16 replies
    AP via sfgate.com ^ | 03/22/2014 | RUSSELL CONTRERAS
    John E. Love, a Bataan Death March survivor who led a campaign to change the caption on a historic march photo from The Associated Press, has died. He was 91. Love died Monday after a long battle with cancer, said Gerry Lightwine, pastor at La Vida Llena, an Albuquerque retirement home where Love lived. As a 19-year-old member of the New Mexico Guard, Love was one of 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers who were taken captive by the Japanese in World War II when the U.S. forces surrendered in the province of Bataan and Corregidor Island in April 1942. In...