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4 days ago · March 03, 2022. SIU professor to speak about Bataan Death March before Congressional committee as 80th anniversary approaches. by Pete Rosenbery. CARBONDALE, Ill. — Jan Thompson, a professor and director of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Journalism, wants to safeguard the legacy of what American POWs in the Pacific endured in the World War II Bataan Death March in ...
Apr 16, 2024 · Fil-Am and US veteran communities commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan and Bataan Death March. Photos from San Francisco PCG. In his keynote speech, Vice Admiral Andrew J. Tiongson, the Fil-Am commander for the Pacific Area and Defense Force West of the US Coast Guard, highlighted the strategic ties between the Philippine and ...
Apr 22, 2024 · In their new book, Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman take us to yet another place and another time when men and women “suffered an ordeal of unparalleled cruelty and savagery: forty-one months of ...
6 days ago · The Sympathizer. New episodes every Monday on HBO and HBO Go 4 stars. The miniseries treatment of Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s 2015 best-selling novel The Sympathizer has had a ...
Apr 29, 2024 · Pitsor’s corpse lay buried in the camp cemetery until after the end of the war. In December 1945 and early 1946, the 111th Quartermaster Registration Platoon began to disinter Cabanatuan Prison Camp #1 and #3 cemeteries. The bodies were sent to a facility outside Manila. There, the tedious process of identifying individual remains began.
Apr 17, 2024 · SAN FRANCISCO – The Bataan Legacy Historical Society, in partnership with the San Francisco National Cemetery, VFW 91st Division/Chinatown Post 4618, American Legion Riders Chapter 105 and Memorial Squadron, will commemorate the 81st anniversary of the Bataan Death March on Saturday, April 15 at 10 a.m. at the San Francisco National Cemetery at the Presidio…
Apr 19, 2024 · Famous quotes about the Vietnam War. "No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely, have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic." -Richard Nixon.
