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Cyrus sends story about Bataan Cyrus, our Central Ohio Bureau Chief has found this article from the "Adair County News," August 25, 1943. The article gives insight into the sacrifice servicemen would volunteer in order to protect America during World War II. Columbia is observing a period of mourning for Earl Conover, a survivor of Bataan, through today. Flags in Columbia are flying at half-mast in memory of Earl Conover through today on orders of Mayor Patrick R. Bell. A Story from Bataan The following interview with Lieut. Ann B. Bernatitus, U.S.N., a nurse back from Bataan, was sponsored by the Treasury Department in a bond campaign: "Those American boys--who fought for you with their backs to the wall, waiting for help that never reached them--came from the land of plenty. But when their lives were at stake, all they had was . . .plenty of nothing! "They were outnumbered, out-gunned, and out-supplied. They were so short of ammunition that anti-aircraft gunners often had to hold their fire until the enemy planes were on top of them. They were so short of bandages and gauze that we nurses had to wash out the old ones and use them again. "But they were never short of Courage. The never spoke of surrender. They just went on fighting, and hoping, and dying. And no sacrifice was ever too great. "Let me give you an example. One terrible day on Bataan we had 285 patients on our operating tables in eight hours--a new patient every two minutes of the day. "A sailor was brought in with his abdomen blown to bits. He was a goner and I think he knew it. 'Doctor,' he asked, 'is there any hope at all?' "The doctor wished to reassure him and replied, 'We'll do everything we can!' The sailor tried to roll over. 'Doc,' he begged, 'get me off this table and save one of those other fellows who still has a fighting chance..' "That was the kind of men we had at Bataan. And they would want you to remember not only what they did, but what they did without. "They would want you to remember it, but not with flowers and memorials. The flowers are for yesterday and the monuments for tomorrow. "Remember them now--this month and every month--by buying War Bonds! "Buy guns and planes and ships and tanks--for those other countrymen of yours who are fighting so far from home. See to it that never again, any place in the world, will American fighting men be caught short as they were on Bataan! That never again will American wounded perish for the help your dollars might have sent! "Certainly taxes are higher. Certainly the cost of living has gone up. But the men on Bataan were never ten-percenters! "They gave everything they had. And now it's up to you to buy War Binds not only if you can, but all you can! Please believe me, folks--that's the way the boys on Bataan would like to be remembered!" This story was posted on 2005-06-24 07:55:20
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