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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on August 16, 2011, 05:10:51 PM
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Rest in Peace, good Sir.
Albert Brown, Oldest U.S. Survivor of Bataan March, Dies at 105
When Albert “Doc” Brown returned from World War II, weighing 90 pounds and nearly blind from disease and malnutrition, doctors told him he shouldn’t expect to live another decade. And yet the Nebraska-born former dentist—who happened to be the godson of the legendary “Buffalo Bill” Cody and a cousin of actor Henry Fonda—soldiered on to become the oldest known American survivor of the brutal Bataan Death March, which killed some 11,000 prisoners of war held by the Japanese in 1942. Brown died last weekend at the age of 105.
More at link:
http://www.history.com/news/2011/08/16/albert-brown-oldest-u-s-survivor-of-bataan-march-dies-at-105/?cmpid=Social_Facebook_HistoryInTheHeadlines_08162011_3
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Real True Grit.
to st. michaels he will tell,
another soldier reporting for duty sir
i've served my time in hell.
Rest In Peace.
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45 when he made the Death March ? He was relatively old then, add another 4 years in a POW camp ?
He must have been one tough SOB to survive what killed thousands of men half his age !
In the "Old West" a "Bad man" wasn't necessarily an outlaw, he was a "Bad man to mess with" this old boy definitely qualifies.
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Another hero gone from a greatest generation.
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45 when he made the Death March ? He was relatively old then, add another 4 years in a POW camp ?
He must have been one tough SOB to survive what killed thousands of men half his age !
In the "Old West" a "Bad man" wasn't necessarily an outlaw, he was a "Bad man to mess with" this old boy definitely qualifies.
Yep.
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Rest brother you have earned it. These are the men our children should look up to not some athlete.