Great Falls JROTC students honor POW/MIAs
and last updated 2020-12-10 09:23:23-05
GREAT FALLS â Thereâs a new bench in Great Falls designed to honor prisoners of war and military personnel missing in action.
JROTC cadets from both Great Falls public high schools dedicated the bench at the Montana Veterans Memorial on Wednesday.
The cadets used their participation in the annual Bataan Death March Memorial Hike in September to raise more than $3,000 to get the bench.
After the Battle of Bataan in World War II, an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino soldiers were forced by the Japanese to march more than 60 miles, and it became known as the Bataan Death March.