Posted on 08/15/2011 8:00:34 PM PDT by decimon
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, embodying the power of a positive spirit in the face of inordinate odds.
"Doc" Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the Bataan Death March, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded.
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Stories like that make me really hate the Japanese.
When I hear the typical BS about Heroshima or Nagasaki, I almost get ill thinking of the Bataan Death March, etc.
In school, our kids are not taught about the Bataan Death March, The Berlin Airlift, The Marshall Plan, how we rebuilt Japan, etc.
But they sure know about Hiroshima.
Sure, but would you mind distilling the point for me?
No I'm not prone to sucker punching people but in the statement such as you made, the assault would be reflexive.
And Dresden.
Yep. That focus is entirely messed up.
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many from that theater talked little about what they endured.
my Scoutmaster for my years in Scouts in 60-65 was a B-29 bombadier who was shot down and became a late POW the day of Hiroshima — in fact almost beheaded on the outskirts of that city.
I didn’t find all this out until I was in my twenties and talked to him one day.
Thanks. I was working on a reply that was becoming too long. Yours went right to the point.
Stories like that make me really hate the Japanese.
What they did then, not the Japanese today.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
I will hire a driver and make that drive and say a prayer for them along the way.
Dresden was vindictive and uncalled for.
BS!
I know!!! That’s the hard part. The Japanese seem like such incredibly honorable people, especially when compared with other more nefarious Asian subcultures. It saddens me greatly when reminded of this brutality.
Warsaw and Rotterdam, now those were uncalled for. The Kraut bastards are lucky they weren’t nuked along with the Japs.
Dresden was vindictive and uncalled for.
My uncles were from Montana. He and a brother joined the Army loking for adventure. Guess they found it.
They got separated, one went on the march, the other held and tortured in a Jap prison. He lived with physical problems for the rest of his life, and died just a few years back.
RIP Doc, thank you for your brave service. I knew a survior, we knew him as Fred, a drafting room clerk. He wanted to be an engineer but said his brain didn’t work as good when he got back. He was a gentle man that always smiled, he knew the blessings of this country.. The stories he wouldn’t talk about, but were heard in the office was he was smaller of frame and that others had to protect him from things I will not post here. Freddy probably has gone west as well. We will never know the horror they seen....
This is what those Hun bastards did to the beautiful city of Warsaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxb5H77wYt0
So don’t cry to me about Dresden.
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