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Bataan Memorial March

Military personnel and civilians participating in the 16th annual Bataan Memorial March walk along County Road 45 Saturday in Brainerd. For more photos go to spotted.brainerddispatch.com.

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-05-05/bataan-memorial-march
News
Bataan memories still vivid

The fall of Bataan in the early months of World War II is a just a historical...were two Brainerd residents whose loved ones served in Bataan. Jackie MacDonald, who married Bataan survivor Lee MacDonald after the war, and former state...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2013-04-09/bataan-memories-still-vivid
News
Remembering Bataan

...Brainerd's annual ceremony marking the fall of Bataan and the beginning of the Bataan Death March is a 71-year-old community tradition...that forced the April 9 ceremony indoors into the Bataan Memorial Hall at the Brainerd Armory, wasn't...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/2013-04-14/remembering-bataan
Opinion
Bataan Wreath Laying Ceremony is April 9 at Brainerd Armory

Bataan Memorial Wreath Laying Ceremonyis April 9 at Brainerd ArmoryWalt Straka of Brainerd, a Bataan Death March survivor and former POW, will...marking the 70th anniversary of the fall of Bataan at a Bataan Memorial Wreath Laying Ceremony...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-03-26/bataan-wreath-laying-ceremony-april-
News
Bataan Survivors

Former members of Company A, Bataan survivors and former World War II POWs, Walt Straka (left) and...Porwoll greet each other at the opening ceremony for the 15th Annual Bataan Memorial March Saturday at the Brainerd National Guard Armory...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2012-05-21/bataan-survivors
News
Thanks for Bataan coverage

I want to thank you for the continued reporting on the Bataan Death March. I reside in Longview, Wash., but my father...Brainerd, Donna Smith, is kind enough to forward articles about Bataan and the men that served. Thanks again for the reports. It's...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2012-04-02/thanks-bataan-coverage
Open Forum
Nisswa Legion Bataan Days scheduled May 22-23

...on the lives of the World War II veterans of the Bataan Death March.Bataan Days will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 22...was a lot older and wiser.Billie Brown served the Bataan Death March only to die in Camp O'Donnell.When...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-05-12/nisswa-legion-bataan-days-scheduled-
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COMMENTARY: Bataan survivors beat the odds

...career and there's no question that Bataan Death March survivors Henry Peck and Walt...It's been years since I attended my first Bataan day commemoration and met these two heroes...fought on the Philippines peninsula of Bataan agreed to an unusual request in 2002...

http://brainerddispatch.com/lifestyle/2010-12-30/commentary-bataan-survivors-bea
Lifestyle
Bataan Death March survivor Peck dies at 90

...Henry Peck of Brainerd, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, was remembered Monday by...remembering that Peck took offense when a Bataan memorial portrayed the soldiers in the...fought and held defense positions on the Bataan peninsula of the Philippiines until U...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/2011-02-28/bataan-death-march-survivor-peck-die
News
Open Forum: Bataan's 70th anniversary approaches

...read of the death of Henry Peck who was a Bataan Death March survivor. I can remember...mark the 70th anniversary of the fall of Bataan and the horrible aftermath that deeply...to combine a fund drive with the annual Bataan Day activities each April.Funds may...

http://brainerddispatch.com/opinion/open-forum/2011-03-07/open-forum-bataan%E2%8
Open Forum

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