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Readers’ forum^ _Bataan survivors deserve our respectThe men who were members of Port Clinton’s Company C, 192nd Tank Battalion deserve every inch of publicity they receive and they probably deserve more.These men suffered the “Bataan Death March” and its horrors during World War II. On Sunday, Nov. 25, a memorial in their honor was dedicated at Camp Perry.The nine survivors attending this dedication in their honor suffered 3‘/2 years of cruel and inhumane treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors, and I feel they deserve all the honors we can bestow upon them.These men were sacrificed and were expected to hold the Japanese for 30 days while our country could get organized after Pearl Harbor.They held for five months! Imagine five months of being half-starved, disease-ridden and fighting with World War I weapons and ammunition.They were outnumbered, 80,000 to 200,000 Japanese, and they held for five months against a modern Japanese war machine.These men and their comrades on Bataan and Corregidor will go down in history (or they should, anyway) as greater heroes than those at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, the Alamo or any other battlefield heroes welearned about in school.Were it not for their valiant action that upset the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific, you can bet Australia would have fallen and World War II would nothave ended when it did.Don’t you think they deserve all the recognition we can give them?During that memorial dedication, these great and very wonderful guys related some of their experiences and the camaraderie that is evident when they are together. It is an honor to meet them.Robert Gerding 611 Alice St. Port Clinton
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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Wed, Dec 12, 1984
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