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A hero's welcome, honoring the extraordinary sacrifice of Amerca's greatest heroes, a Vanilla Fire production

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A hero's welcome

videorecording DVD

a Vanilla Fire production

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honoring the extraordinary sacrifice of Amerca's greatest heroes

Never Surrender: Two weeks after the Japanese marched through Manila in World War II, Lt. Edwin P. Ramsey led an offensive in the Philippine jungle that made history as the last mounted horse cavalry charge in U.S. military history. Later, after the fall of Bataan in spring 1942, Ramsey refused to surrender and joined the Filipino resistance. He rose to command more than 40,000 guerilla warriors, becoming a hero to the Filipino people and a peacemaker to the wartime effortReturn To Tarawa: Brings to light the extraordinary dedication of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) team who have returned to the site of one of the most horrific battles of World War II. Their efforts on the island of Tarawa to recover and bring home the remains of fallen U.S. service men have previously been unrecognized but that will change as they provide some closure almost 70 years laterReturn to Tarawa: Follows the journey of World War II veteran Leon Cooper. Cooper, a U.S. Navy landing craft officer who in 1943 fought in the battle of Bloody Tarawa, returns to the site to investigate disturbing reports about the current state of the fabled "Red Beach." Cooper helped launch this first major amphibious assault on a Central pacific Japanese stronghold. Cooper's trip to Tarawa is full of wonder, anger, and divine providence as he and filmmaker Steven C. Barber visit what is thought to be the graves of hundreds of soldiers still buried there

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Never surrenderUntil they are homeReturn to Tarawa