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Staff Sgt. Robert Greenman had just turned 20 years old when he died.
The young man from Washougal was a long way from home — 6,684 miles, give or take — when a bout of dysentery took his life at a prisoner of war camp in 1942. He was one of about 70,000 soldiers from the American and Filipino armies captured by the Imperial Japanese Army and forced to walk more than 60 miles to the camp, a notoriously treacherous hike that historians would later name the Bataan Death March.
