re: #107 Targetpractice

That’s the thing about ceasefires, they take awhile to propagate. Remember reading somewhere about pockets of Japanese soldiers still needing to be cleared out for months after the surrender, refusing to believe that the emperor would throw in the towel.

29 years later…

In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang. His mission was to conduct guerrilla warfare during World War II. Unfortunately, he was never officially told the war had ended; so for 29 years, Onoda continued to live in the jungle, ready for when his country would again need his services and information. Eating coconuts and bananas and deftly evading searching parties he believed were enemy scouts, Onoda hid in the jungle until he finally emerged from the dark recesses of the island on March 19, 1972.