{"id":76785,"date":"2017-12-28T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76785"},"modified":"2017-12-28T12:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T17:06:50","slug":"ramon-regalado-passes-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76785","title":{"rendered":"Ramon Regalado passes at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports the sad news that Ramon Regalado, a Philippine Scout and survivor of the Bataan Death March has passed at the tender of 100 years.<\/p>\n

Regalado was born in 1917 in the Philippines. He was a machine gun operator with the Philippine Scouts under U.S. Army Forces when troops were forced to surrender in 1942 to the Japanese after a grueling three-month battle.<\/p>\n

The prisoners were forced to march some 65 miles (105 kilometer) to a camp. Many died during the Bataan Death March, killed by Japanese soldiers or simply unable to make the trek. The majority of the troops were Filipino.<\/p>\n

Regalado survived and slipped away with two others \u2014 all of them sick with malaria. They encountered a farmer who cared for them, but only Regalado lived.<\/p>\n

Afterward, he joined a guerrilla resistance movement against the Japanese and later moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to work as a civilian for the U.S. military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to East Bay Times<\/a>, Regalado joined the US military after the war and continued serving in the Navy and at the VA, including service in the Korean and Vietnam wars. <\/p>\n

The elder Regalado \u2014 an eclectic man, a voracious reader who followed politics closely \u2014 took part in the first Bataan Legacy Historical Society event held at Cal State East Bay in Hayward in April 2012, and became a prominent spokesman for Filipino WWII veterans.<\/p>\n

Cecilia Gaerlan, executive director of the Berkeley-based Bataan Legacy Historical Society, said Regalado was a humble man, and an eloquent one. \u201cHe embodied the values of the greatest generation \u2014 duty to country, honor and love for freedom,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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