WWII Veteran and POW Advocate

Lester Tenney

1 article 2016

Lester Tenney was a survivor of the Bataan Death March and a longtime advocate for American POWs held by Japan during World War II. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2016, writing about Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Hiroshima and its implications for veterans of the Pacific War.

Kerry's Premature Visit to Hiroshima

April 11, 2016 · Japan, Blog

John Kerry has become the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the Hiroshima Peace Park, ground zero to the first atomic bomb. He recognized the victims of World War II, saying he was there in part to "revisit the past." As part of that history, a prisoner of war of Imperial Japan, I hope that…