Watch Death March from Bataan to Manchuria: Raising a Survivor's Voice

Can you teach survival? This movie brings you a history of Oliver 'Red' Allen. Allen is a living survivor of the Bataan Death March. He survived the trip by 'hell ship' to China. He survived years in a slave labor camp in Manchuria, with grace and dignity. Do you intentionally think about survival? Do you unintentionally teach survival as a life force? Do you advocate survival as a concept? Do you sponsor survival skills by using lessons, for your children or students, related to mental and physical fortitude? If you teach survival by chance or deliberately, you raise the possibility for critical thinking and problem solving. If you purposely teach lessons that cause learners to ask questions, examine clues, present hypotheses, support their hypotheses, and apply their hypotheses, you elevate possibilities for critical thinking and problem solving. Why spend time on painful topics, such as the abuse of POWs? Answer: you optimize, in daily life, the job of reasoning. We all want to optimize reasoning. We have a stake in this project: we share with you, a stake in the future. We all share a stake in problem solving, human development, and balanced thought. In or out of a classroom, by studying people who survived prisoner of war camps you help lift critical thinking and problem solving into blood-pumping decision-making. Do you feel uneasy just reading about POWs? Does the mix of highflying ideas and painful topics cause you to feel tense? Good. Recall, a certain level of tension often leads to rational thought and creativity. You know that highflying ideas carry weight. You realize that weighty topics often turn unsettling. Unsettling topics we all must grasp, whether welcome or unwelcome, repeatedly turn into the most important subjects in our lives. By studying people who survived POW camps, you also advance the learners' prospects to join information, instruction, learning, and knowledge application with citizenship, moral responsibility,