Just another tragic WWII story

[pokerfan]

Mamerto Hermosa survived the Bataan Death March and, later, the disease and cruelties of Camp O'Donnell. But his miseries only increased after he was freed as part of a prisoner release program and made his way home to his wife and daughter in Santa Lucia, in northern Luzon. There, a collaborator told the Japanese he still might be a combatant, so Japanese soldiers dragged him from his home, put a noose around his neck and hanged him after he watched the soldiers rape his young wife.

http://www.dailyherald.com/special/philippines/part4.asp

Since watching The War by Ken Burns I've been reading up the Bataan Death March. A friend of our family was a survivor and passed away earlier this year. She was a nurse and suffered greatly under the tender mercies of the Japanese.

[rockymountaindem]

1. There's really not too much anybody can say about something like that

What an awful tragedy.

[Suich]

2. I bookmarked the link to read later.

Thanks!

:)