interesting article. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/18/world/asia/hiroo-onoda-imperial-japanese-army-officer-dies-at-91.html?_r=0
Talk about perseverance, this guy had enough to fill my swimming pool...I appreciated the part that his weapon was in great shape all these years later and that he cried when turning it over....
:shock: :shock: :shock: I remember when he surrendered. It was a big story. His hatred of television and the modern world reminded me of my American grandfather, who had been born in 1876. We spent a lot of time together when I was little, and I remember how he hated everything about TV, except wrestling. That had been the only sport they had in post-Civil War Arkansas where he grew up and he actually believed that it was real... By any mental accounting that I can muster, Lieutenant Onoda is a hero who stayed true to everything that he knew. That's all any man can do, and I can't think of any better example than his...