{"id":26189,"date":"2011-08-16T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26189"},"modified":"2011-08-16T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:31:18","slug":"oldest-baatan-survivor-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26189","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Baatan survivor passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Brown died at 105 years old, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory?id=14312315&#038;page=2\">ABC News<\/a> link sent to us by ROS. he was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and survived for three years in their custody despite the odd that he wouldn&#8217;t. Of the 78,000 prisoners captured with him, 11,000 died along the 65-mile march from Baatan to their Japanese POW camp; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By the time the war ended in 1945, the 40-year-old Brown was nearly blind, had weathered a broken back and neck and suffered through more than a dozen diseases including malaria, dysentery and dengue fever.<\/p>\n<p>He took two years to mend, and a doctor told him to enjoy the next few years because he had been so decimated he would be dead by 50.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article mentions a newly released book about mr. brown&#8217;s experiences in the war &#8220;Forsaken Heroes of the Pacific War: One Man&#8217;s True Story&#8221; writen with kevin Moore, but I don&#8217;t see it on Amazon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The underlying message for today&#8217;s returning veterans is that there&#8217;s hope, not to give in no matter how bleak the moment may seem,&#8221; added Moore, whose nephew just returned from military duty in Afghanistan. &#8220;You will persevere and can find the promise of a new tomorrow, much like Doc had found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Brown died at 105 years old, according to the ABC News link sent to us &hellip; <a title=\"Oldest Baatan survivor passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26189\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oldest Baatan survivor passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}