ALBERT “DOC” BROWN, the oldest survivor of the Bataan Death March, died Sunday at 105 in a nursing home in Nashville, Ill. “Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the … harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila, Philippines, to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded. But Dr. Brown survived and secretly documented it all, using a nub of a pencil to scrawl details into a tiny tablet he concealed in the lining of his canvas bag. He often wondered why captives so much younger and stronger perished, while he went on.” Read the rest here: http://bit.ly/n1VoyV