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Bataan Death March: Airman honors POW grandfather
Starvation, torture and a 70-mile march to concentration camps or dying in the process were the only options Philippine soldier, the late Ricardo Plana faced after the U.S. surrendered the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese during World War II.
Now, 75 years later, his grandson, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Max Biser, 23d Security Forces Squadron, traveled to the White Sands Missile Range, N.M., to complete the 26.2-mile Bataan Memorial Death March, March 19.
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3/22
2017
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No mama, no papa and no Uncle Sam
“No mama, no papa and no Uncle Sam.”The words surged out of the speakers and spread across the crowd. They are the words that were waiting on the lips of each survivor and those prepared to honor them.“Marchers, give me your attention,” said Brig. Gen. Timothy Coffin, the White Sands Missile Range commanding general. “Hear their cry, in their own
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3/23
2016
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