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Join hosts Gary Lillie and Bob Gould, along with death-march survivor Steve Raymond.

The Bataan Death March began 3½ years of captivity for Steve Raymond. During that time he witnessed horrors that we may not even be able to discuss on radio. In the first year after being captured, 30% of all Bataan POWs had died of malnutrition, disease, execution, beatings, slave labor, living conditions and refusal by the Japanese to provide even simple medical treatment. One example you will hear is that of a young American boy having his leg amputated with no sedation or medication.

Mike Pride, co-writer of Raymond’s memoir Too Dead to Die, joins us to read an excerpt from the book.