Sean C. Morgan
The Sweet Home VFW held a fund-raising dinner Saturday night to help pay for a memorial marker along the route of the Baatan Death March.
After the invasion of the Philippines in 1941, approximately 70,000 American and Filipino troops were captured by the Japanese and forced on a 65-kilometer death march from the Baatan Peninsula to Camp O’Donnel. About 11,000 did not complete the march and were brutally beaten and killed.
The…