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Participants from across the Korean

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Peninsula came to Siouan Air Base to

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partake in Iraq . During the Bata

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Memorial Death March , we're doing the

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Baton Memorial Death March in order to

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commemorate the pows and the fallen

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victims that partook during World War

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II for both the Americans and the

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Philippines , just a tad bit of history

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back in World War II , about 66,000

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Filipino soldiers and about 10,000

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soldiers were forcibly marched by the

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Japanese on this really extreme

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arduous march called the Bataan Death

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March . Personally , it's very

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important to me because my grandpa then

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second Lieutenant Guzman had to do the

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death march . He was a P O W and he

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survived it all . So today I honor him

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reporting from Siouan Air Base . I am

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senior airman . Ryan Prince A F N

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Humphries .