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The Mountain View - 11 May 2009
Sunday, 10 May 2009
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MND-S hosts open house for local VIPs
COB BASRA – Local Basrawi politicians, business and religious leaders, educators and Iraqi military representatives visited the base here May 9 for a luncheon and tour of the new Multi-National Division-South headquarters. Though the base is undergoing many enhancements, the most notable improvement may be the relationships between the Iraqi citizens and Coalition forces. Before breaking bread together, Basrawi VIPs mingled with the top brass of the outgoing 10th Mountain Division and the incoming 34th Infantry Division.
Soldiers, Civilians pay tribute to Bataan Death March
COB Basra - Eighty-six Soldiers and civilians stationed here joined efforts with Minnesota National Guard Soldiers in Brainerd, Minn., to participate in the 12th Annual Bataan Memorial March May 10. The Bataan Memorial March is an annual event to honor veterans who were victims of the original Bataan Death March, a war crime in which 78,000 individuals were forced to march over 55 miles from the Bataan Peninsula to be held as prisoners of war at Camp O’Donnell following the surrender of Allied Forces in the Philippines in 1942.
