With deep respect, I salute the 64th Annual Bataan Day Memorial Service of the Maywood Bataan Day Organization. The event you honor will be remembered for as long as men and women read about war, and heroism.

- Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, September 10, 2006

Welcome from the President of the Maywood Bataan Day Organization and the Board of Directors.

This is the official website for the Maywood Bataan Day Organization. Here you will find information about the MBDO, as well as historical information about our origins and our continuing mission.

We recommend you start with the history of our organization, which you will find by clicking here. After you read that, you may want to see more of the historical archives we maintain online, as well as the photos which catalog Bataan Day ceremonies past and present.

If this information makes you want to learn more, you'll find links here that will lead you to other excellent sources of information.

And if you wish to help us, please go here to learn how to donate time or money to help us continue our work.

Please also take the time to leave us any thoughts you may have, or questions in the forum section of our website.

Thank you for taking the time to visit this site.



Col. Richard A. McMahon, Jr.
President, Maywood Bataan Day Organization