The first to admit that he did not volunteer for military service, Myrrl W. McBride, Sr., was just a young man trying to work and return to college when he was drafted from Grants, New Mexico, into a world completely foreign to him and a war he never envisioned. Soon he would bear witness to one of the most tragic events in U.S. military history--the U.S. surrender at Bataan and the Bataan Death March.