Lost my Uncle Fritz on Bataan two days before the surrender. Official papers say he stayed on his gun until his squad could pull back. He was with the 200th/515th Coast Artillery out of New Mexico, a draftee from Chicago. Listed on the memorial in Manilla as Missing in action or Lost at sea. I have spoken with his first Sargeant on occasion, a man in his eighties who has a spectacular memory. He remembered my Uncle well and remembered the circumstances that led to his death.
Everyone of those men and women that fought in Bataan and on Corregidor and in the second world war are heroes and should be treated as such. In fact any of our troops past and present should be honored this way, they did their duty and more and kept our country free.
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Bataan
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