Memorial Death March

For now, most of my Bataan Memorial Death March material is in its own GitHub repository. However, I'm honored to be the face of civilian heavy, both on the registration page and a Facebook post from January 13th, 2023.

Welcome Back

The last pre-covid year the Bataan Memorial Death March was held in person was 2019. That year our twin daughters were fourteen years and a half years old. They and my wife did the Honorary (fourteen and a half! mile) course.

The 2020 edition of the Bataan Memorial Death March was canceled less than a week before it was to happen. Covid was fairly new, but the organizers chose to err on the side of caution. There was no attempt to hold an in-person BMDM in 2021, but they did provide a virtual substitute. The BMDM was to have been held both virtually and in person in 2022, but the in-person event was scuttled.

In 2023, the event returned to White Sands Missile Range and both our twins and I did the full. Iris, still in high school at the time, was in the Civilian Light division. Margaret, then a freshman at the University of New Mexico, was part of a five person ROTC light team. Once again, I competed in Civilian Heavy. Jeff, my brother-in-law, walked the Civlian Light.