A small bright ray of light in a very dark place.Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were among US soldiers in World War II who endured the atrocities of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines and the brutality of Japanese POW camps. These camps were places of cruelty, starvation, and sickness—places where the prisoners, seemingly abandoned by their country, were despised, exploited, tortured, and at times savagely murdered by their captors. Yet, in one of the most infamous of these POW camps in the Philippines, a group of twenty-nine Latter-day Saint soldiers found hope and strength through their religion and each other. This is the story, largely told through their personal accounts, of this group of Latter-day Saint POWs in the Philippines, the events that brought them together to form a band of brothers in an infamous POW camp—a remarkable event in the history of the church—and the events that would later pull them apart—twelve to their liberation and seventeen to their death.
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