Summary: Amado Ante was five days into the Bataan Death March when it finally came time to die. He was ravaged by malaria, starved to his bones, his feet swelled up so badly he could no longer walk. Japanese soldiers were bayoneting or beheading everyone who fell behind.“My friends pushed me into a ditch and I went into the bushes to escape,” Ante, now 99, recalled Friday. “There was always fear, always fear. But I had to live. I had to fight.
