johnlennon30
04-12-2008, 02:02 PM
Dedicated to the memory of the Filipino and American soldiers of Luzon Force, who surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army on 9 April 1942, Bataan, Philippines....
Your service shall be remembered forever
Beneath the blazing noon day sun
Guarded by Jap guards' guns
We walk, unrested, day and night
Within the guard's gun sight.
We hunger, yet are nourished not
We pause, and we are shot
Request for water or for heat:
You'll taste the soldiers' feet.
Such is the price we have to pay
Through wind, rain, night, and day
The price for love of country dear
Is loneliness and fear.
Yet stings of bullets we can bear
If we can once again
Breathe in the cool and crisp fresh air
And fearless wield a pen
(For none of us has been allowed
To write with truth thus vowed)
We can endure this cross of ours
Through all the painful hours
To see again the country dear
Serene and without fear....
Written about an incident of inhuman treatment of prisoners during World War II.
If you want to find out more, search for "Bataan Death March" on Google. A lot of things will turn up.
Your service shall be remembered forever
Beneath the blazing noon day sun
Guarded by Jap guards' guns
We walk, unrested, day and night
Within the guard's gun sight.
We hunger, yet are nourished not
We pause, and we are shot
Request for water or for heat:
You'll taste the soldiers' feet.
Such is the price we have to pay
Through wind, rain, night, and day
The price for love of country dear
Is loneliness and fear.
Yet stings of bullets we can bear
If we can once again
Breathe in the cool and crisp fresh air
And fearless wield a pen
(For none of us has been allowed
To write with truth thus vowed)
We can endure this cross of ours
Through all the painful hours
To see again the country dear
Serene and without fear....
Written about an incident of inhuman treatment of prisoners during World War II.
If you want to find out more, search for "Bataan Death March" on Google. A lot of things will turn up.