From left, Retired U.S. Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, Brig. Gen Brently White of the U.S. Army Reserves, and Philippine Consul General Henry Bensurto salute during a wreath laying ceremony for the 75th anniversary of the Bataan Death March at the Presidio's World War II West Coast Memorial Saturday, April 8, 2017, in San Francisco. On Saturday a dwindling band of veterans of the war were at the Presidio to honor the soldiers who died on the march and those who made it to a prisoner of war camp only to die there. They'll also commemorate the mostly Filipino soldiers who held off Japanese forces in the Philippines for three months without supplies of food or ammunition before a U.S. army major surrendered 75,000 troops to Japan on April 9, 1942. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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