the Pacific, giving time for the Navy and MacArthur to organize their forces.

Wainwright did return to the United States a hero, and President Truman awarded him the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on the front lines of Corregidor. Wainwright was loved by the men he commanded because he suffered with them. He refused to leave their side or the rock he defended saying, “We have been through so much together that my conscience would not let me leave before the final curtain.” The Pacific Theater is sometimes overshadowed by the European Theater in WWII. The greatest thing about Veterans Day is we remember and honor all of those who served from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the lowliest infantry grunt.

Understanding in manyenemy. But eventually they had to give in. More by order than by choice. He survived the Death March. Many of his comrades did not. Not only the marches, but the cattle cars, the camps, and even the Hell ships. Not to mention the abuse of their captors.He even managed to survive as a slave laborer in the Japanese mines.

When I was growing up he rarely talked about it. I think the memories were far too painful. Not only the abuses suffered at the hands of the Japanese, but the things the guys had to do to survive. I can only imagine. He, and the other survivors were pretty well forgotten when they came home. No PTSD in those days. No help for the psychological terrors they had