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https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/2021/04/12/bataan-vets-receive-congressional-gold-medal/7191246002/

Evangelisto (Evans) Ramirez Garcia was born in Dona Ana, NM, on June 19, 1913.  He grew up working with his family in the Mesilla Valley fields, and after the crops were picked, rode horses with his friends and stirred up mischief as young boys do. He went to NMSU and qualified for the boxing team, competing in the 125-pound weight class.  He moved to Santa Fe to work, then volunteered with the NM National Guard 200th Coast Artillery, signing up with Taos H Battery, where a lot of his friends lived.  In Bataan, the 200th were “the first to fire” on the enemy at Clark Field when the Japanese invaded the Philippines.  Evans survived the Bataan Death March, was a POW in the Philippines, and after surviving a hell ship journey, was a POW in Japan, working as a slave laborer in a condemned, abandoned coal mile.  At the end of the war, he came home to Santa Fe where he started his family.  He worked with Selective Service in Santa Fe for 25 years, retiring in 1972.  He never stopped serving his fellow veterans.   He was involved with the VFW Post 2951 in Santa Fe, organized support with other Bataan Veterans to start the Bataan Memorial Museum (currently the NM Military Museum) and volunteered countless hours at the VA hospital in Albuquerque.  He passed away on January 29, 2011, at the age of 97.  He always said, “Do everything you can so people remember Bataan.” 
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