The Zero Kilometer (KM) Death March monument stands in Bagac, Bataan is second starting point of the cruel death march. The first starting point is located in Mariveles, Bataan. April 10, 1942 is the start of the Death March at Bagac, Bataan. Roughly, 76000 prisoners of war compose of 66,000 Filipino Soldiers and 10, 000 American Soldiers. They walk even if the scorching hit of sun during the day and the cold wind of the night with limited food and water. The Prisoners are force to drink the dirty water that they encounter along the march. Only 54,000 prisoners reached the camp; though exact numbers are unknown, some 2,500 Filipinos and 500 Americans may have died during the March. Some of them by gunshots, bayoneted, and, in many cases, beheaded. This is the cruelty of the Death March.
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Manuel Quezon
Preeminent political figure throughout most of U.S. colonial rule. Born in 1878, elected to first Philippine national assembly. Sent to Washington as Filipino representative, drafted American legislation that pledged eventual independence for Philippines. Negotiated final independence act in 1935, became president of interim commonwealth. Handsome, mercurial and autocratic, escaped to Corregidor when Japanese invaded; died in the United States in 1944. (In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines - Stanley Karnow)