RIP: John Love, Bataan Death March survivor.

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As a 19-year-old member of the New Mexico Guard, Love was one of 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers who were taken captive by the Japanese in World War II when the U.S. forces surrendered in the province of Bataan and Corregidor Island in April 1942.

"I was one of the first 300 or 400 off the march to enter Camp O'Donnell, and they (prisoners) began dying that same day," Love told the Albuquerque Journal in a 2009 interview. He estimated he carried more than 1,000 bodies to the graveyard.

For the remainder of the war, Love was forced to work in a Japanese copper mine until being liberated in 1945.

Thanks to Weasel Zippers for the heads up and full link: John Love, Bataan Death March survivor, dies at 91.