Shadow Bataan Death March: The Day Of Valor

One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation was written, African Americans were still fighting for equal rights in every day life. The first real success of this movement did not come until the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in 1954 which was followed by many boycotts and protests. The largest of these protests, the March on Washington, was held on August 28, 1963 “for jobs and freedom” (March on Washington 11). An incredible amount of preparation went into the event to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of people attending from around the nation and to deal with any potential incidents.

The readers of the article “Liberating the First Nazi Camp,” an interview with Jim Martin, WWII veteran will begin to understand the personal hardships that service members experienced through the war. In the given article the reader can begin to see just how bad the conditions where for people that opposed the Third Reich, and where thrown into these concentration camps. The interview also show the haste that the Nazis would get into when the Allied forces, leaving helpless victims in the gas chambers, hastily executing them via machine gun, and even storing the remains in warehouse to be disposed of at a later time. The article also shows a more human side of the rough and tough solider who literally had to do this depressing job every single

The article Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage by Jill Dubisch is about a pilgrimage of veterans and other people that want to join the run join for a ten day journey from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. all to remember the veterans of the Vietnam War and the POW/MIA people of the war. This pilgrimage is a ritual of transforming the veterans that is there time to share their emotions. This ride is a way for the veterans of any war to feel freedom on their motor cycles. They went on the journey to express feeling that they didn’t get to express on their arrival home from the war because they lost the war and didn’t feel prideful. The authors point was to show an American ritual that is a pilgrimage for the people on the run for the wall.

There were several marches that were shown in March, like at the beginning of the book (pp.5-9) showed the march on Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis and his comrades marched on to the bridge on the other side were troopers waiting

I arrived at 6 p.m. at Place Émilie-Gamelin as the crowd was still getting organized. There was a buzz of energy in the air. There were around 400 people gathered for the march from a

People were fleeing for their lives during the march. This brought the war to all of America instead of just the soldiers. Women and children had to work tirelessly, day and night to keep their families

Glenn Frazier, a survivor of the Bataan Death March states, “ If we had known what was ahead of us at the beginning of the Bataan Death March, I would've taken death.” The Bataan Death March was extremely brutal, which left many survivors thinking if they should have died at the beginning of the march. During the Bataan Death March, the Americans and Filipinos were forced to walk 65 miles in five to twelve days without food or water while enduring regular beatings (“Bataan Death March, 1942”) . During the march, the Japanese would treat the prisoners of war (POWs) in a brutal manner leaving only 987 survivors out of 76,000 prisoners (“ New Mexico National Guard’s involvement in the Bataan Death March”). The Americans were horrified by the Japanese

On Tuesday night, an estimated 1,400 people marched the streets of Boston in memory of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. The peaceful gathering was one of many that took place across the nation to protest a St. Louis grand jury’s decision to not indict Officer Wilson.

I was merely walking to work when I thought I saw death. I never saw so much horror and disgust as I walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge over the Alabama River on March 7, 1965. I was never a part of the march, I was going to work but as a black man that didn't matter.

At the end of the ceremonies of the march at the Lincoln Memorial, a pledge was said, reciting the pledge the crowd swore to "complete personal commitment to the struggle for jobs and freedom for Americans" and "to carry the message of the march to my friends and neighbors back home and arouse them to an equal commitment and an equal effort” (Kensworthy 1963, p.16).

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed the United States’ Naval Base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese did not stop there. Their attacks continued to the Philippines, where U.S. forces were stationed. After some time battling, the U.S. and Filipino troops had to surrender and the Japanese took them over. The Bataan Death March did not only affect the United States, Philippines, and Japanese, it affected how war trials were held and carried out. The question is how did the Bataan Death March affect modern day warfare?

A devastating 18 day, 50-mile march took place countless beaten senseless, but it was worth it. The first Selma to Montgomery march 7 1965 bloody Sunday. The march began when a prime leader John Lewis the leader of the SNCC (Student nonviolent coordinating committee) he wanted to try to end segregation as well as bring voting rights to blacks. Nevertheless, that’s not how it went, state troopers were ordered to wait 2 minutes before attacking the marchers, if you haven’t guessed yet that’s not how it went, the state troopers attacked. Ending up in the result of brutality hurting numerous men along with women. Spiting on them clubbing them to the extinct of jail time in are generation, whipped, stomped on by horses, the list goes on and on. That remains known as bloody Sunday. When someone my age (13) thinks about bloody Sunday it’s vague but if you were to ask someone who was there it’s an era of dark memories. This would go on to what will build

The March on Washington was a civil rights movement that occurred on August 28, 1963 (Jones x). The people who marched consisted of mainly African Americans, but also others seeking to gain equal rights for all people. Many Americans know of this movement for Martin Luther King Jr. giving an “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. However, not many people know about the details and another official leader of this movement, A. Philip Randolph. This protest was for “freedom” and nearly a quarter-million people gathered at the nation’s capital from all over the country (Jones x). By freedom, they meant to have the same rights and equality as whites do in both the economy and society.

The March on Washington took place Wednesday, August 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. The march was generally for jobs and freedom but specifically it was for voting rights protection, public school desegregation and federal programs to trained unemployment workers. When it first began, many of the people was socializing about possibly what’s taken place but honestly no one actually know for sure because of how many people actually showed up and involved themselves in the movement. There was many people that came out to support as well as being apart of the march. You could tell by everyone demeanor that marching on washington were something they wanted to participate in without any force because they most likely felt that marching on washington was significant to them. After, witnessing a few people,you could conclude that participating in the march showed the genuine attitude of the people due to their actions they presented. You would that since so many people showed up that it would be complicated to get everyone’s attention but they were able to follow directions even though they made it to certain areas early then they predicted. I do not think any of the leaders that help corporate this event actually knew how many people was going to show up and take a stand with them but I’m sure they expected the best.

In other words, the Army’s mission is to deploy when needed and to win in combat in support of the interests of the United States. It conducts training and operations in every part of the world with 520,000 active duty Soldiers in 223 occupational specialties or jobs. The mission seems relatively simple but recruiting Soldiers to fulfill this mission and retaining them is much more difficult than one would realize. I will present a few of the benefits in the Army’s EVP that motivate Soldiers to “be the best they can be” to make America and the world a better place.