Retired Army Col. Ben Skardon, 99 (in white shirt), a survivor of the Bataan Death March, walks through a field of blooming California poppies with members of “Ben’s Brigade” - his loyal supprt team made up of former Clemson University students of his, family, friends, and relatives of his fellow WWII prisoners of war - during the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, , March 19, 2017. Skardon is the only Bataan survivor who walks in the memorial march, and he walks eight and a half miles. This was his tenth time doing it.

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