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Legion2213
17-Jan-2014, 10:37 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Always fascinated by this guys story and his 29 years of living off the land and believing he was still fighting WWII for all that time.

Anyway, his war is finally over...
AcesandEights
18-Jan-2014, 03:46 AM
Read about this on the paradox forums this morning. I thought Onoda passed away a year or so back. Glad that he got a number of years back in society, after losing so many.

And, yeah, his is a crazy story.
shootemindehead
18-Jan-2014, 07:28 AM
I remember reading about this chap a few years ago. His story is truly remarkable. Dead at 91? Seems living off the land and isolated from humans isn't such a bad thing after all.

:)
krisvds
18-Jan-2014, 08:07 AM
I remember reading about this chap a few years ago. His story is truly remarkable. Dead at 91? Seems living off the land and isolated from humans isn't such a bad thing after all.

:)

"I got an alternative, yeah, yeah, I got an alternative. Let's get in that old whirly-bird, find us an island some place, get juiced up and spend what time we got left soakin' up some sunshine! How's that?"
Neil
18-Jan-2014, 08:52 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Always fascinated by this guys story and his 29 years of living off the land and believing he was still fighting WWII for all that time.

Anyway, his war is finally over...

Didn't he (needlessly) kill about 30 more people over those 29 years?
AcesandEights
18-Jan-2014, 05:32 PM
Didn't he (needlessly) kill about 30 more people over those 29 years?

He definitely killed some people and even got into a firefight with local police where his last companion was killed, IIRC.

Needlessly? Well, yeah, just about all the killing done by the IJN and IJA could be considered needless, but this guy wasn't supposed to surrender, or throw his life away. He was supposed to stick around and cause problems and supposedly didn't believe the war was over or that any government in Tokyo was likely to be anything other than a puppet.