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Old 08-15-2011, 18:30   #1
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Albert Brown; Oldest Survivor of Bataan Death March passes at 105

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A survivor and historian. Thank you for your Service.


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Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March dies at 105

Posted: Aug 15, 2011 5:26 PM EDT
Updated: Aug 15, 2011 8:16 PM EDT
By JIM SUHR
Associated Press
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, embodying the power of a positive spirit in the face of inordinate odds.

"Doc" Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the Bataan Death March, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded.

But Brown survived and secretly documented it all, using a nub of a pencil to scrawl details into a tiny tablet he concealed in the lining of his canvas bag. He often wondered why captives so much younger and stronger perished, while he went on.
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