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CanonRay

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1. Back in the Philipines again.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2024, 01:59 PM

May 2024

In 1939 my 23 year old father tried to enlist in an Illinois National Guard unit with guys from the nearby towns, any of which he knew; Maywood, and Melrose Park. He got rejected because he had a plate in his skull (from a bar fight).

That unit was sent to the Philippines. They became part of the Bataan Death March.

When I was a kid my father dragged me to the Bataan Day Parade held every year in Maywood.

Long US history there.

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