A Tribute to the Battling Bastards of Bataan

April 9th was the day that Allied Forces laid down their arms on the blood-soaked peninsula of Bataan after months of holding off numerically superior Japanese forces without air and naval support. Collectively known as the "Battling Bastards of Bataan", the doomed men and women fought disease and starvation and dodged enemy bullets and bombs in an epic battle that tested the limits of the human spirit.
It is only fitting that these men and women be remembered for the uncommon valor that they have displayed in Bataan. If America produced its Greatest Generation during the Second World War, the Philippines only produced its bravest generation of fighting men. To these men, I offer my salute.