The day we left for Camp Cabanatuan was a clear memory for me. We were in groups of 50 and 100 men with 2 to 4 Japanese armed guards in charge.they were poking and pushing their rifle butts against the ribs and behinds of stragglers (H. Montoya, p. 140). The first group of American POWs to leave the camp that first day numbered 600 men. We ended up walking all day. Later that evening, we were fed a baseball sized rice ball and nothing else. We supplemented this "meal" with some if the weeds around us. Then we slept underneath the stars with the question of what the next day would bring us (H. Montoya, p. 142-143).
Works Cited
Montoya, Horacio H.. Rising sun over Bataan: memoirs of war. Charleston, SC: BookSurges] ;, 2008. Print.
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