1. What is the connection between Bataan and New Mexico? Why is Bataan still remembered in New Mexico, especially Las Cruces, today? Please give examples to support your answer and use your own words.
- The video mention, it's because the two hundred coast artillery of the New Mexico National Guard was there.
2. What were some of the challenges that U.S. military personnel, including New Mexicans, faced in the Philippines?
- There were lack of food and water. Sometimes marching for the entire day. They got only a handful of rice for nourishment and often not even that. The man who tried to eat food on the road offered by civilian were shot. In addition there were disease going around.
Over eighteen hundred men who went the Philippines only about nine hundred ever returned home.
3. How old are Bataan survivors today? Have you ever met a Bataan survivor or had a personal experience related to remembering the survivors of the Bataan death march?
- The survivor from Bataan death march, now are eighty or ninety. I don't have a personal experience with Bataan survivor. But if I have a chance to talk with them I will be very glad to listen their experience.
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