[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 145 (Thursday, September 27, 2007)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 COMMENDING GLENN FRAZIER, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA, FOR HIS SERVICE DURING 
                              WORLD WAR II

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                             HON. JO BONNER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 27, 2007

  Mr. BONNER. Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure to rise today to 
recognize Mr. Glenn Frazier of Mobile, AL, for his courageous service 
during World War II. At just 17 years of age, Mr. Frazier signed up to 
join the peacetime Army in the summer of 1941.
  Volunteering to serve in the Philippines, where he would be a world 
away from the battle raging in Europe, he was assigned to the 75th 
Ordinance Depot and Supply Company. When the Japanese attacked Pearl 
Harbor and the Philippines, Corporal Frazier and thousands of American 
and Filipino troops were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. In 
April, 1942, he was one of 78,000 American and Filipino troops captured 
and forced to march to a prison camp more than 60 miles away without 
food or water. Thousands of the prisoners died during the week-long 
march that became known as the Bataan Death March.
  After surviving months of horrific conditions at Camp O'Donnell, 
Corporal Frazier was shipped to Japan and spent nearly 3 years in 
various prison camps. The army presumed him to be dead in the summer of 
1944, and confirmed him to be dead in 1945. However, after the second 
atomic bomb was dropped, his prison camp was abandoned by the guards, 
and Corporal Frazier and his fellow POWs escaped to freedom.
  His story, along with other Mobilians, is told in the Ken Burns' 
documentary series ``The War.'' Madam Speaker, the recognition of Mr. 
Glenn Frazier in ``The War'' documentary is an appropriate time for us 
to pause and thank him--and all of the soldiers who fought in World War 
II. They personify the very best America has to offer. I urge my 
colleagues to take a moment to pay tribute to Mr. Frazier and his 
selfless devotion to our country and the freedom we enjoy.

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