War Economy
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Text and video below on the Bataan Death March from “Veterans in Service”, used here non-commercially for academic purposes:
“The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. The 60 mi (97 km) march occurred after the three-month Battle of Bataan, part of the Battle of the Philippines (1941–42), during World War II. In Japanese, it is known as Batān Shi no Kōshin (バターン死の行進?), with the same meaning.
“The “march”, or forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war, was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the armed forces of the Empire of Japan.
“Route of the death march. Section from San Fernando to Capas was by rail.The treatment of the American (and Filipino) prisoners was characterized by its dehumanization, as the Imperial soldiery “felt they were dealing with subhumans and animals.Trucks were known to drive over those who fell or succumbed to fatigue, and “cleanup crews” put to death those too weak to continue. Marchers were harassed with random bayonet stabs and beatings.Accounts of being forcibly marched for five to six days with no food and a single sip of water are in postwar archives including filmed reports.
“The exact death count is impossible to determine, but some historians have placed the minimum death toll between 6,000 and 11,000 men; other postwar Allied reports have tabulated that only 54,000 of the 72,000 prisoners reached their destination — taken together, the figures document a rate of death from one in four up to two in seven of those on the death march. The number of deaths that took place in the internment camps from the delayed effects of the march is considerably more.” (Text and video below from “Veterans in Service”, used here non-commercially for academic purposes)
photo credits as stated in the archives
Gurl Day.
Image, an original concept, creation,
and pencil sketch by Z, entitled “Rosalina”
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“…i want to be
where the people are
i want to see
want to see them dancin’
Walkin’ around on those
(Whad’ya call ’em?) oh – feet…”
When we first met after many years, Z, a writer-storyteller, honor roll lister of the batch, and drama-musicale guild performer, who gently takes care of Snowflakes and all the people around her, drew this in ordinary lead pencil and paper — — after executing a handstand on the hallway…
Credits: Image above by Z. “Rosalina”, an original concept, creation, and sketch in ordinary lead pencil and paper by Z, used here non-commercially for academic purposes.
The character she created and drew is named “Rosalina”, pronounced “Row-zallina”.
She drew it in under ten minutes. She has a sketchbook in her bag which she carries around anywhere; so, whenever she has to wait for sumthin’, instead of playing in the devices, she produces original creations with her bare hands and pencil and paper. When i introduced her to a “picture and photo software” in the laptop, she learned in 30 minutes what took me years to learn. and when i couldn’t teach her anything more about the software, she looked it up and learned how to utilize so many more functions about it that she is now better at it than anyone…
(Photo shows the Z girls baking Fondant au Chocolat which they learned from YouTube — i did the hauling-off-the-hot oven: Children not allowed to cook and bake without an adult around them.)
Z can also read aloud with a French accent to suit the character of the story.
When we saw each other again weeks after, she and Zi taught me how to be friends with Wedge. Here’s the photo she took with the android: She even made me re-execute the pose so i can match the smile Wedge has for us…
