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"When Connie Vineyard returned home from World War II, he was given an order to go home, be quiet and not to tell anyone what the Alamo Scouts did.That's why you've probably never heard of the Alamo Scouts and what they did for New Mexicans in the war.Lance Zedric has written two books about the Scouts. He said he felt a historical responsibility to catalog what the unit did, so in his latest book, \"Silent No More,\" you hear from Scouts themselves.The soldiers completed 112 missions, two of which had them behind enemy lines in the Philippines to free captured soldiers from prison camps.In 1942 more than 70,000 Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to the Japanese. Of those, 1,800 were from New Mexico. The prisoners of war were forced to walk 65 miles to prison camps. Many died in what's now known as the Bataan Death March.In 1945 the Alamo Scouts freed hundreds of men from one of the prisons.Vineyard is one of five scouts still alive. The original unit had 138 soldiers.Vineyard was in Santa Fe this weekend for final annual reunion for the unit, at the Bataan Memorial Museum.Mobile users: Tap for video"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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