Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Filipino and American POWs death march during WWII -- Ben Steele's new book "Tears in the Darkness"
Here's the article from CNN...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/07/13/bataan/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
I might buy it off Amazon. But sounds like a good read.
As a side note, my own father (a Filipino that lived during the Japanese invasion) for years had a disdain for anything Japanese. He even disliked my taking a Japanese language class in college!
The photo is of Ben Steele as a POW at a Japanese coal mine prison camp in 1944. 25,000 Filipino soldiers and 1,500 American soldiers died during the Bataan Death March.
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