Oldest Bataan Death March survivor passes away

[oakranger]

Heartfelt salute as my grandfather took that very walk himself.

Sadly, he passed on over 35 years ago.

I too, have a family member that walked that march, April 19, 1942. 

[B4Buster]

 

[des506]

 

[dirtdart]

I was lucky enough to have walked the 50th anniversary march at white sands back in 1992.  No mama No Papa No Uncle Sam.... the battling b@stards of Bataan. 

I remember at the beginning and the end of the walk seeing the survivors up on the reviewing stand they had set up. 

A good portion of them were from my home state of New Mexico.  My dad used to go around selling encyclopedias and occasionally would run into them and listen to their stories.