Remembering Bataan

Last year, a group of San Marcos High School Air Force ROTC students learned about an overshadowed conflict in the Philippines that took place during World War II, and it sparked in them a series of questions.

The first were surface-level inquiries: What was the Bataan Death March? When did it happen, why and how?

Then came deeper questions as the ROTC students wanted to learn more about the march, which resulted in around 17,000 Filipino and American soldiers’ deaths. They wanted to know why they had never heard about the conflict before, and then they wanted to know what they could do to commemorate it.