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WBKR San Francisco.
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A brief interruption, please.
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This is spot and tragic news
from the Philippines.
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The white flag of surrender
was hoisted...
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...on the bloody heights
of Bataan this afternoon.
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36,000 United States soldiers...
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...hungry...
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...ragged, half-starved shadows...
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...trapped like rats
but dying like men...
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...were finally worn down by
200,000 picked Japanese troops.
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Men who fight for
an unshakable faith...
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...are more than flesh.
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But they're not steel.
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Flesh must yield at last.
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Endurance melts away.
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The end must come.
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Bataan has fallen.
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But the spirit that
made it a beacon...
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...to all lovers of liberty
will never falter.
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The white flag was hardly
hoisted over Bataan...
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...before Jap artillery began
slamming away at Corregidor...
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...our last strong point
in the Philippines.
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Men, with Mr. Brickley gone...
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...l'll carry on the way
l think he would.