"The Battle of Bataan" heard as

[Wilson Gray]

"the Battle of buh-TAHN"

IIRC, it used to be "the Battle of buh-TAN"

but I may be wrong, since even I was but a tad, in those days.

Bueller? Anyone?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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