"
"We were jammed one hundred to a car standing room only. Men
fainted, but there was no place to fall down."
"They didn't open the door until we reached the destination.
The living and the dead just fell out."
"Sit down and be counted!"
"When we had reached Capas, it was pandemonium, Japs and captives all
milling around. They tried to count us as we rested."
"Then we were told to line up-in columns of twos. We started the
march on a dirt road some six miles to Camp O'Donnell."
"Some captives had marched all the way from Bataan close to one
hundred miles."
"It wasn't the march that killed us; it was the continual delays along
the march the standing in place for two or three hours at a time
without food or water."
"If you stepped out of line, you were apt to have a bayonet in
your gut."
The exact number of dead from the "Death March" was probably known
only to God. The best estimates were anywhere from 12,000 to 17,000.
Deaths at Cabanatuan: During the first eight months of camp, deaths
totaled 2,400. Some thirty to fifty skeletons, covered by leathery
skin, were buried in common graves each day.
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