Weekend Wanderings: Bataan Death March 69th Anniversary
10 April 2011, 11:30
Filed under: Leadership, Normandy, POWs, Veterans, Weekend Wanderings | Tags: Anniversary, Baseball, Veterans
Filed under: Leadership, Normandy, POWs, Veterans, Weekend Wanderings | Tags: Anniversary, Baseball, Veterans
One of the most tragic events for Americans in World War II unfolded 69 years ago. Approximately 75,000 Americans and Filipinos who had surrendered on Bataan were force-marched to prisoner of war camps. At least 6,000 to 11,000 never reached the camps. Another example of man’s inhumanity to man….
- I found a wonderful post on two survivors of the Death March that explains the event very well, and can’t help but move you to tears.
- Fortunately, there was one young boy in Japan who fed one of the Death March survivors working in a factory during the war.
- Our Canadian on travel in France posted a great note entitled Things I Learned while in France that will make anyone who has visited feel nostalgic and want to go again….
- Baseball just started the regular season, so some folks have Opening Day Jitters.
- Another Canadian (Caleb) has started Bloggy Wogg and reviewed a book on Football in Germany.
- We lose WWII veterans by the hundreds every day, but for the children of those men, it’s a percentage. It’s 100% of their father. Louis Cohen’s sons learned a lot from him.
- Mitch wrote a nice piece on the defining characteristic of Normandy: the Hedgerow and the tools the Americans improvised to defeat them.
- Another reminder of good leadership can be found over at XBradTC’s Bring the Heat, as he relates the story of a company commander, a General and a father-to-be. Take care of your people. They remember that forever.
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Weekend Wanderings After President’s Day 2011
I missed posting a ‘Wanderings’ last weekend. I had to run down to the wine shop to help fix computer problems on Saturday, so got nothing done. Fortunately, I’ve been keeping my eyes open.
- Chris Kolditz forwarded along a link to an article about Augusta Chiwy, an African nurse who tended to wounded in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
- Pitchers and catchers reported to spring training and Tom Boswell had a good column on the excitement from the perspective of the rookies.
Weekend Wanderings
19 December 2010, 11:30
Filed under: 101st, Paratroopers, Weekend Wanderings | Tags: Baseball, Battle of the Bulge, Japanese Internment, Resistance, Thanksgiving
Filed under: 101st, Paratroopers, Weekend Wanderings | Tags: Baseball, Battle of the Bulge, Japanese Internment, Resistance, Thanksgiving
I’m going to start accumulating the “best of the blogs” that I read each week and post them on Sunday for people to read.
- In The Bastogne March, Mark Nakazono relates his experience hiking around Bastogne, seeing Belgians reenacting American soldiers on the very sites the fought. Some very nice pictures if you follow his link.
- I found a nice article about soldiers of the 187th Infantry Regiment (101st Airborne Division) celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan, which is a nice companion to John Carter’s Thanksgiving 1944.
- COL Henderson (my late father-in-law) would appreciate Craig Swain’s post about the new Don Troani print celebrating the 150th anniversary of his beloved Signal Corps.
- Bob Feller passed away this week. Brian at “Die Hard Night” notes that “He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 and as of today he is still the only member to serve as a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy.”
- On Amy Reads, there’s a review of an interesting novel on the French Resistance on the island of Jersey.
- Xiphos posted a quick explanation of the Battle of the Bulge, though his language is a little salty.
- On 17 December 1944, Japanese-Americans started to be released from the ‘relocation’ camps to which the government had sent them.
- While I hate the Yankees, the love of Freddy “The Fan” Schuman for his Yankees is being commemorated in a very classy fashion. Thanks to the Golden Age of Baseball for the link.
- I found a rather difficult WWII war movie quote quiz. I did very poorly….
- I was laughing out loud at the end of Joe’s blog on Zack Greinke. It’s precisely the quality of writing that made me add him to the blogroll…
