I saw a reference to a 92-year-old veteran of the Bataan Death March and decided to read it. You can also HERE.
There are several disturbing paragraphs, such as this one:
The march became known as the Bataan Death March, not just because of how many died, but because of the way they died. If you stopped, you were killed. If you had a malaria attack and had to stop for help, you were killed. If you had dysentery and had to stop to relieve yourself, you were killed.
But, I find this paragraph especially disquieting:
The U.S. military document we former POWs had to sign as we were released from our POW camp stated, “You shall not discuss your experience as a POW with any source without prior approval from the War Department, doing so may result in severe penalties, or court-martial.” And the threat kept us quiet all these years.
I don’t know what explanation the government had for requiring this, but I’d like to find out.
Wow, I had no idea. We know, well knew, a man who survived the Bataan Death March. Many men from New Mexico were in it and few survived. He never talked about it. Maybe this is why but in reality I think the horrors of it would prevent one from wanting to relive it.