MacArthur’s Moving Prayer For Victims of Bataan
Received Friday 12.30 a.m. SYDNEY, April 8. On the first anniversary of the fall of Bataan, General MacArthur issued the following statement: “A year ago to-day the dimming light of Bataan’s forlorn hope fluttered and died. Its prayers by that time—and it prayed and as well as fought—were reduced to a simple formula rendered by hungry men through parched lips; ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ “The light failed and Bataan starved into collapse. The wrecks ol what were once our men and women groan, sweat and toil in prison. Our faithful Filipino wards—sixteen million souls —gasp in the slavery of the conquering soldiery. I was the leader of a lost cause and from the bottom of a seared and stricken heart I pray a merciful God that he may not delay too long their redemption, that the day of salvation be not so far re moved that they perish, and that it be not again too late.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 84, 9 April 1943, Page 5
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