The wife and I stopped in a town in New Mexico that had a memorial for the Bataan death march. Even had survivors footprints in the concrete. I wish I could remember the name of the town. I'll ask my son. We went when we went to visit him at ft bliss
My dad and FIL both served during WWll. My FIL supplied the navy ships that were part of D-Day, he found out afterward. He saw thousands of planes flying overhead that day. No one knew what was about to happen, but they knew it was big. My dad was stateside in the Army Air Corp. and worked on bombers. 33 years ago, he died on June 6th, D-Day.
We talk about these men securing freedom for the world in WW II, but in fact, so many were just boys at 18, 19 yrs. old. And quite a few even younger than that lied about their age to get in. They sacrificed so much, and there is hardly even a passing mention of them anymore. We are the last generation directly tied to them, we must see that those who follow us know what they did.
That's why there's only ONE. Documents of it and then footage is rare plus the people who lived through that have tried to explain it best. Either way goes down in history as one of the most incredible war fronts.
I've often wondered if something like that were to happen today how many would do such a thing? I fear there would be thousands just run away and try to hide. That is a sad thought and we wonder how long our country can last.
