Retired Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, shares a laugh with Master Sgt. Mike Lavigne, a volunteer at water station one of the Bataan Memorial Death March, at White Sands Missile Range, , March 18, 2017. Skardon is the only Bataan survivor who walks in the memorial march. He walks eight and a half miles and this was the tenth time he did it.

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