Some reminders:
Iconic photo of Bataan Death March Prisoners
After one helluva fight, our forces surrendered on April 9, 1942
We're the Battling Bastards of Bataan,
No Mama, No Papa, No Uncle Sam,
No aunts, no uncles, no cousins, no nieces,
No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces,
And nobody gives a damn!
1 posted on
05/05/2016 11:55:05 AM PDT by
Oatka
To: Oatka
After reading those postcards, i would have been wetting my pants during the night. Tough men.
too bad about the A bombs. or so kerry and obummer would say.
2 posted on
05/05/2016 12:02:44 PM PDT by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Oatka
3 posted on
05/05/2016 12:12:26 PM PDT by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: Oatka
God bless American patriots who died for our sake.
5 posted on
05/05/2016 12:19:14 PM PDT by
RitaOK
( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
To: Oatka
Thank you for posting and remembering.
6 posted on
05/05/2016 12:20:38 PM PDT by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
To: Oatka
Must have been a helluva six months. Fighting, waiting, hoping; perfectly captured in the bitter little ditty. A different breed of men than we have now.
7 posted on
05/05/2016 12:21:40 PM PDT by
Rinnwald
To: Oatka
Tough to type, eyes leaking.
Thanks.
9 posted on
05/05/2016 12:28:39 PM PDT by
oldvirginian
(American by birth, Southern by the grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me. CRUZ 2016!)
To: Oatka
We whipped the Japs in less than four years!
Back then, America knew what to do with barbarians.
10 posted on
05/05/2016 12:30:17 PM PDT by
Jacquerie
(ArticleVBlog.com)
To: Oatka
My junior high math teacher was on Corregidor when it fell.
He spent the rest of the war in a Manchurian POW camp.
The stories he shared with us were horrific
12 posted on
05/05/2016 12:34:35 PM PDT by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: Oatka
Around the same time, the Japanese carrier Shokaku was heavily damaged at Coral Sea and almost sank when her captain drove her too hard back to base for repair.
To: Oatka
Met a guy in Walmart with a survivor hat from Corregedor. Wonderful guy.
17 posted on
05/05/2016 1:06:56 PM PDT by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: Oatka
The vastly overrated MacArthur disobeyed a direct order and refused to fortify the Bataan Peninsula.
He should have been court-martialed and broken.
To: Oatka
26 posted on
05/06/2016 7:56:34 PM PDT by
M1903A1
("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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