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Horacio Montoya, 89, folds his hands in prayer as he sits down to brunch. Montoya survived the Bataan Death March and spent three years as a POW. With the number of World War II veterans dwindling quickly, he fears that memories about the war are being lost and recently had a book about his experiences accepted by a publisher. "Can you imagine all those that are dying off, what they're taking with them, the information. It's quite phenomenal," he said.