Tell your fellow Americans about, Jose Calugas, a member of the Philippine Scouts, who earned the Medal of Honor during the siege of Bataan, running 1000 yards across machine gun swept open ground to get a field gun back in action. Rallying the men around the gun, he defended the position all day, allowing the Americans and Filipinos to reorganize and firm up their lines. 

Calugas took part in the Bataan Death March and then spent two years in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Released to labor in a Japanese rice mill, he joined a guerrilla unit and took place in attacks on Japanese troops and in the liberation of the Philippines.

After the War, he became a US citizen and an officer in the US Army, retiring as a Captain to Washington state in 1957. Please honor and remember Jose Calugas!