Political Quotes

“I think most of us are familiar with or have heard discussions about the Bataan Death March. That was a terrible experience for a lot of American GIs. But I think what happened after the Bataan Death March, to some of those same people, and others, is particularly outrageous. I want to refer to a couple of paragraphs from this article because it certainly sums up why they should have their day in court and what exactly we are talking about with regard to these American GIs and POWs. Let me read a couple of paragraphs. On April 9, 1942, a gentleman by the name of Lester Tenney, one of 12,000 POWs, American soldiers, surrendered to the Japanese at the tip of Bataan Peninsula. They were taken to a prison camp by the Japanese Army on what became infamous as the 9-day, 55-mile-long Bataan Death March during which 1,000 of them perished. I will not go into all of the details, but a few details will show why a day in court is justified and is important. The atrocities they suffered--some have been revealed; some have not--and what happened afterward, where they were forced into slave labor camps for some of Japan's biggest corporations, remains largely unknown.”