An American professor has dedicated his life to telling others of the brutality he endured while he was a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Lester Tenney, a professor emeritus at Arizona State University and the author of the book "My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Memories of War)," is a survivor of the infamous march of POWs in the Philippines.

The compensation issue for torture and mistreatment of prisoners of war by Japanese is not talked about as often as the "comfort women" issue today and is gradually fading into history, but Tenney is making sure the POW story remains alive.

"Have you heard about Bataan, 'Hell Ship' and slave labor?" he asks his students in a vigorous voice belying his 87 years.