Bilibid, where the Army enlisted men were ordered to throw 
 
him on the prison floor. I started to kneel down at his side but
 
a Japanese bayonet was shoved at my chest in a very business-like
 
manner.
 
             Short had not moved, and had been given no medical
 
attention when, two hours later, I was ordered with Captain Hoeffel
 
and several Army staff officers to the elementary school at Pasay.
 
In this school was the Navy Hospital Unit from Canacao, Carire.
 
The Unit's medicines had been confiscated, except for that which
 
 a few doctors had managed to hide among their personal effects.
 
      
               An hour after we reached Pasay, Lt. Col. Short was
                                                                                                                                    
 brought in and placed on a mattress on the floor. Naval doctors                                                    
 
worked on him for nearly an hour, while the rest of us stood about
 
and wondered what was to happen to us next, and what was to be
 
our fate. In all the entire group, only Lt. Col. Will B. Short had no
 
worries for the future. Lt. Col. Will B. Short, United
 
States Army, was dead.
 
       Death was no stranger to any of us who had gone through
 
the Battle of the Philippines, but we were to learn about a new
 
kind of death. For instance, while I was at Pasay  a group of
 
300 American prisoners who had been captured on Batsan and had
                                                                                                             
been at Camp O'Donnell passed through on their way to a work
 
detail in Batangus. All were in a deplorable condition--the story of the
 
"death march" to O'Donnell, after the surrender of Batsan, probably
 
will come to rank with the worst chapters in the story
 
 
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