To: elcid1970
he said that when he surrendered and handed his sword to Marcos, he expected to be executed right away.
14 posted on
01/17/2014 9:55:01 PM PST by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: DesertRhino
....I thought Onoda surrendered to his Japanese chain of command. Must have been brave of him to do so if he thought he was now a prisoner of the Filipinos, against whom countless atrocities were committed during WWII.
16 posted on
01/18/2014 4:35:04 AM PST by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson