This is the first time I've seen an article on this subject that takes into account the international date line.....It was the 15th in Japan...Kudos

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I am against the tolls. but as a political realist, you have to realize it is OVER. Speaker Fox and President Paiva-Weed do not really care about the petiitions or the rallys. How many legislators were there? It is OVER.

It's not over till the actual transfer takes place. We will fight till they change their minds. Never surrender !

Rhode Island still celebrates Victory Day,Really? Sandy it is apparent that you have no clue as to what happened in the Pacific theater during WW2. War is brutal no matter what but compared to the Pacific the war in Europe was more civilized if one can call war civilized. I am taking nothing away from the men and women who fought in Europe but what happened in the fighting against Japan was a whole different ball game. Germany treated captured POW as such but Japan had no such idea. A prisoner was treated as garbage. The Bataan death march started with 70,000 POW's and ended with 7,000. The men captured on Wake Island started with hundreds and only half maybe survived to go to Japan where they were worked to death in mines. This happened to all of the allied prisoners no matter where they were from and continued on this way till the end of the war. The Japanese were outright barbaric not only to the Allies fighting against them but to civilian people were ever they conquered. It would seem that more Rhode Islanders fought in the Pacific then in Europe and that very well could be the reason we still hold VJ day dear here. They fought against an enemy that held other human life as having no value. So let them have their day of remembrance as they deserve it.

Hey Tuna man....Please check your figures. you're way off. By the way, the "trail of tears" march had a migher percentage of fatallities/casualties than the Bataan Death March, Senior Chief, USN Retired.

Well I have to agree with Tuna Man about the way the editor's captions read. The comments Seriously and Really have no buisiness being in the head lines.

Stanley, Higher then 90%? 63,000, that is how many died on that march and they were not casualties but murdered by their captures. It didn't matter where in the areas of the world controlled by Japan the POW's were worked to death or just murdered when the Japanese were done with them. It was the same in Burma,Malaysia,China,Philippines and everywhere in between. The Japanese were savage and brutal where ever they went.

All records I find put the total at approx 25 percent, mostly Filipino. I'm curious as to your refernce material. Everything in the Ency Brit, goggle and bing challenge your figures.