Cabanatuan Memorial
Viewing the Names of Filipino and American Soldiers
Elder B and President and Sister DeLaMare
Elder B explaining the raid at Cabanatuan
Lunch with our gathering at Cabanatuan
Me but these are not my tennis shoes. I am in flip flops that you can't see.
Foundation rock with shadow of tree
This is a wonderful peaceful memorial
We put together a day trip to Cabanatuan and Camp O'Donnell to visit and pay tribute to the fallen POW's held captive at Cabanatuan and at Camp O'Donnell. There were 12 of us that went. President and Sister DeLaMare, Brother and Sister McAllister who are the expats over Legal Counsel here in the Philippines, Elder and Sister Beckstrand, Sister Burwell, Sister Clark, Elder and Sister Burningham (us) and a new acquaintance just met, Major Damon Saxton and his bodyguard, Sergeant Joseph. Major Saxton is a US Army Chaplin that dropped by the MPAO this past week. We mentioned this trip and invited him and he was most anxious to go. Sergent Joseph is his bodyguard.
We first visited The Cabanatuan Memorial that was the site of the Great Raid, the rescue of American and Filipino POWs that went down in history as the most daring and successful rescue ever. The atrocities of the Japanese against POW's are horrific to say the least. We felt reverence for the fallen soldiers and grateful for those who survived. I hope the pictures give some relevance to our visit there.
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