To both sides in the conflict, the four months between the launch of the great Japanese Pacific offensive and the fall of Bataan must have felt like an eternity. For the Americans and Filipinos ...

Is our way of self-government so unwieldy that a repetition of Bataan can occur? Lest we forget — recall sharply and vividly the days of Pearl Harbor, the fall of Bataan, the fall of Corregidor.

Months passed before many learned their sons were prisoners of war -- and those were the lucky ones who hadn't died of disease or abuse after the fall of Bataan. Messages on the government's ...