Dana Rohrabacher: “Before the Second World War, America sent thousands of troops to the Philippines in order to defend that country and to…”

“Before the Second World War, America sent thousands of troops to the Philippines in order to defend that country and to deter war with Japan. During the war, of course, Japan attacked and occupied the Philippines and took tens of thousands of American troops into custody, and it was one of the most brutal incarcerations and treatment of prisoners in the history of humankind. In fact, it resulted in what was called the Bataan Death March, where these men, these Americans who had fought and been in our uniform, they were just marched for days and days without water and food, and thousands of them died along the way in the most brutal type of conditions. The United States has let those men down. We have told them if they held out in the Bataan Peninsula, that we would come and rescue them. We could not do it during the war because the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and we did not have the military strength to do it, so we let them down. Then, after they were incarcerated, they were sent to work camps and slave labor camps and concentration camps in Japan and in Manchuria.”