yakdung 2,926 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 If you have a little over an hour to spare, I highly recommend this video. Dr. Lester Tenney describes his experience during the Bataan Death March during WWII. Heartbreaking to say the least. https://youtu.be/MEfkwW7hnrU http://www.amazon.com/My-Hitch-Hell-Memories-War/dp/1574888064 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sim_Player 1,939 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 (edited) Horrific Human History. There is no limit to what an over-powered authority can impose on a group of people. Edited December 21, 2015 by Sim_Player Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spacehog 2,218 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 This kind of brutality is why I still find zero remorse for nuking them. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FOG50 12 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 When I was 12, (1962) I met a friend of my father, who had survived the Death March. He had to wear leg braces on both legs due to injuries he suffered at the hands of the Japanese troops. At the time, I didn't really understand how strong this frail man must have been just to survive. They were truly the Greatest Generation! 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G O B 3,516 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Japan was a Nation with NO honor. They STILL are. Most racist people ever, they still worship those who attacked us as hero's, and teach their young that WE started the war! Japan believes themselves to be above all others, a LOT like Muslims, just leave out the 5 prayer breaks per day. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yakdung 2,926 Posted December 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 http://www.rense.com/general8/pows.htm Quote Link to post Share on other sites
james lambert 3,059 Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 A bunch of them were New Mexico National guardsmen . Very few are left with us today. These were the 18 year olds that charged headlong into machine gun fire. Todays 18 year olds run screaming to their (safe place) having seen a rebel flag sticker on a laptop. My Greatest respect to the Greatest generation! My revulsion with generation whiner 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
evlblkwpnz 3,418 Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 An in-law (that I obviously never met) was in the Bataan Death March. He was beaten and thrown down a well in front of loved ones (pretty sure it was his wife and children). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lumberman 116 Posted December 22, 2015 Report Share Posted December 22, 2015 My father-in-law was there in Bataan as a boy. He saw the whole thing from the surrender to the staging of the march. I think the surrender was negotiated at his school. He doesn't like talking much about the Japanese occupation; sometimes he opens up about what it was like and what he saw. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HB of CJ 1,263 Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 Then we piss the peace treaty away? MacAuthur! Dug Out Doug? Or Bug Out Doug? He did run. Ran like a rabbit. Probably cut his own orders and Roosevelt had no option at that time but to back Doug up? Still classified today? Wonder why? The USS Missouri SHOULD be at anchor in Tokyo Bay with BIG USA flags today as a reminder to the Japanese people of what happens when a DISARMED population loses control of their government and the government then loses control to an Army faction. If anybody so much as LOOKS at that ACTIVE USN Battleship wrong, a whole bunch of bad things happen to the Japanese economy. Just me. Two uncles I never knew. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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