Bataan Death March Memorial Marathon

[Old and Reliable]

Originally Posted by Robert Delk

Just read your narrative again and think you should have a byline somewhere in a major paper. Good stuff. I may have to take back all the "flak" I have given the Air Force over the years..being a former Marine and all.

Also as a Marine E-6, I appreciate Colonel Day's mentioning our beloved Corps in his narrative. I lost two uncles to the Japanese in the Pacific TO, both we USN. In a strange way of looking back, they both died in Kamakazi attacks on their ships, and maybe were lucky not to have been captured and tortured by the cruel Japanese Army. Their values and religion are way different than those here in America. Another uncle was a waist gunner on a B-17 and their bomber was shot down on the Polesti raids- all the crew parachuted out safely, were captured on the ground by members of the Volksturm, and spent 11 months in a Luftwaffe Stalag (german word translated-stockade)-- but were not tortured, even the two members of the crew of the Jewish Faith.

Now our WW11 enemies are our allies, and we find ourselves trying to help Japan recover from the earthquake/disaster and possible Chernobl USSR nuclear disaster- life is, indeed, a "strange twist of fate"--