[Anton.Rutter]

The last true believer.

[Red Badger]

They sure owed him a lot of back pay....................

[albie]

Snappy dresser

[2ndDivisionVet]

I have no problem with a man who believes in honor and duty to his country. We need more of them.

[moose07]

Thanks, Anton.
Having read his book, years ago, you realise just what a survivor has truly was.
Worth a read.

[George from New England]

Did they ever make a movie ?

[DannyTN]

tenacity

[Repeat Offender]

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over. We may think it over, we may declare it over, but in fact, the enemy gets a vote. - General James Mattis

[max americana]

We have offices in the Philippines. Once our driver pointed out the specific island where this dude hid. Not only that, the enemy hid even in jungles the close provinces to Manila when the Americans were closing in. I recommend visiting Corregidor where the US Forces and RP soldiers were left behind to defend. Everything’s unchanged except the electricity wires in the tunnels.

[Theoria]

Thanks for the post, I was just getting ready to post this one.

[Dagnabitt]

The Japanese Imperial Army was good at murdering civilians.

This guy kept up that tradition well past 1945. And for that he’s a hero?

No sale.

[VanDeKoik]

I’ve always loved his story. Truly an amazing tidbit of the war.

[albie]

Man I bet those shoes stiiiink!

[Riley]

Best comment from the source:

“30 years from now, they will find him hiding out in a cemetery, refusing to stay dead”.

[babble-on]

“During the 30 years that Onoda had remain hidden on Lubang island, he and his men had killed at least 30 Filipinos and had wounded approximately 100 others. After formally surrendering to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Marcos pardoned Onoda for his crimes while in hiding.”

[grayhog]

This will be Al Gore 20 years from now as we head into a cooler planet, still holding out that the snow and ice covering us is just propaganda., and the earth is, in fact, catastrophically warmer.

[henkster]

I remember the news when he came in from the jungle.

We joked that he was greeted by a nephew who said: “Hey Uncle Hiroo; you remember all that worthless Sony stock you bought back in ‘39?”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When I was stationed on Guam for a short time in 1968, there were signs on the fences along the roads warning us not to go into the jungle.

Several years later a WWII Japanese soldier came out.

[GreenLanternCorps]

“duty is weightier than a mountain; death is lighter than a feather...”

-Imperial Rescript on Military Duty