http://www.history.com/news/2011/08/16/albert-brown-oldest-u-s-survivor-of-bataan-march-dies-at-105/?cmpid=PaidMedia_Outbrain_HIS_HITH
This guy recently passed on. He lived through the Bataan Death March.
Interestingly, in 1942, there was a rare "single bottom" rally in the stock market, which coincidentally occured in the midst of massive bad news, like the Bataan Death March. Also, for the US, a bit of good news, the Doolittle raid also occurred at that time. It seems like 2009 also had a single bottom, these are unusual. Many bears in 2009 assumed that the more likely double bottom would occur. Instead the market went on to a 100% rally, leaving bears crushed in the dust, yearning for the excitement of the huge earnings they had just experienced.
Here is a timeline I did a while back, seems very topical now, with the passing of Mr. Albert Brown.
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/2009/06/soltice-is-today-armistice-tomorrow.html
