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Remembering the fall

Annual event at Bataan Memorial Building marks surrender to Japan

A flag detail, including Staff Sgt. Carlos Garcia, left, and Airman 1st Class Carlos Espinoza, lowers a white flag of surrender at the end of a ceremony commemorating the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan in Santa Fe on Thursday.
A firing detail, including Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Whelchel, fires their rifles in honor of Bataan veterans who have died in the past year. This was during the commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan in Santa Fe on Thursday.
James Moss, 82, of Santa Fe and others stand at attention during the playing of the national anthem during the commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan in Santa Fe on Thursday.
Chief Warrent Officer 3 Charlie Estrada, center, and others stand at attention during the playing of the national anthem during the commemoration of the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan in Santa Fe on Thursday.
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SANTA FE 鈥� More than 150 people 鈥� many of them from the New Mexico Army National Guard 鈥� came together in Santa Fe on Thursday to commemorate the 84th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan. The annual event, held outside the Bataan Memorial Building, marks the day U.S. and Philippine troops were ordered to surrender to the Empire of Japan during World War II.

Freshly ironed uniforms dotted the crowd while veterans in attendance wore aged caps and patches from a long-ago war. One of them, 82-year-old James Moss, who served alongside his brothers in the Vietnam War, stood at attention during the playing of the national anthem.

Speakers included Santa Fe Mayor Michael Garcia; Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Carper, deputy adjutant general for the state National Guard; and state Veterans Services Secretary Jamison Herrera. A special remembrance was given to Valdemar DeHerrera, New Mexico's last living survivor of Bataan, who died last year, and the event concluded as guardsmen lowered the white flag of surrender.

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