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Cesar Mijares survived some of the worst experiences in World War II. Mijares is a genuine American hero. Although he disputes that. “Never mind hero,” he said. Okay – except that Cesar Mijares, who’s going to be 98 years of age in a couple weeks, fought in the first desperate campaigns of World War II in the Pacific, survived the brutal Bataan Death March and an equally brutal captivity. Once he was released it took him a year to recover – and once he was well and went home to the Philippine island of Negros, he joined the resistance army fighting the Japanese. (Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

Cesar Mijares survived some of the worst experiences in World War II. Mijares is a genuine American hero. Although he disputes that. “Never mind hero,” he said. Okay – except that Cesar Mijares, who’s going to be 98 years of age in a couple weeks, fought in the first desperate campaigns of World War II in the Pacific, survived the brutal Bataan Death March and an equally brutal captivity. Once he was released it took him a year to recover – and once he was well and went home to the Philippine island of Negros, he joined the resistance army fighting the Japanese. (Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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