I am sitting on my couch in my warm house after finishing a book called, “Horrid Trek,” by Robert Woodrow Levering. This is a true story of Bataan, the Death March and three and one-half years in Japanese prison camps. My mind and body are in a state of shock to have read what happened to our American patriots.
I knew of the Bataan March as one of my uncles, John Lobe, was one of the eight young soldiers from Ely that endured the horrific abuse after being captured as a POW by the Japanese during World War II. Through the years I had heard about Bataan through relatives but never paid much attention to exactly what it was.
The eight Ely soldiers that became POWs during the Bataan March were:
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