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Originally posted by angryamerican
Wow so some of those storiers are true? I thought they were just urban legands. Things that make you go Hmm
Originally posted by Zhenyghi
His old commanding officer (or NCO) was located and called to him on a bullhorn to "surrender", which he finally did upon the "order" of his former superior.
While Gilligan is catching lobsters he thinks he sees a sea monster. He rushes to tell everyone. When he's gone we see it's a submarine with a Japanese sailor inside. Professor and Skipper don't believe him. Gilligan goes back to the lagoon and tells Thurston who also doesn't believe him. The soldier captures Thurston thinking he's an officer. Gilligan claims that he was eaten by the sea serpent. Gilligan and Ginger head back to the lagoon to look for Thurston but Ginger is captured too. Lovey is then captured. Gilligan goes back to the camp to warn the Skipper. Skipper and Gilligan go back to find the Professor but he was captured too. The women and men are in different cages guarded by the Japanese sailor.
professor tries to explain to the sailor that World War II is over. But the sailor doesn't believe them. Nor did he hear it on the radio or transmitter because they broke in 1942.......click HERE for more information.
Originally posted by CautiousCrab
Originally posted by Zhenyghi
His old commanding officer (or NCO) was located and called to him on a bullhorn to "surrender", which he finally did upon the "order" of his former superior.
Little Correction: NCO- Non-Commissioned Officer
Not his old commanding officer.
[edit on 22-2-2007 by CautiousCrab]
Originally posted by lombozo
Thirty years, eh? Not the brightest bulb on the wire I'd assume. Thirty years! I mean come on. Hmmmmmm........Don't you think that after like 25 years you'd start to question things?
Things like
"Hey, you know come to think of it, I haven't heard a single gunshot in 25 years. I wonder......"
or
"Hmmmmm....... Let's see it's been 25 years, and I haven't seen a single person. I wonder if this place is worth protecting? Nah, I'll give it another couple of year just to be really sure......."
you have to be able to comprehend the mindset of the Bushido i guess ?
Countless times the island was blanketed with notes dropped from planes that said the war was over & Japan had surrendered. One of the soldiers he lived with walked away from Onada & his friends in 1949 (after 5 years living with Onada). He walked to freedom & then came back & tried to convince the last 3 soldiers (Onada, Shimada & Kozuka) to give up - that the war was over, they were wasting their time. They dropped notes with the 3 soldiers names on it, pictures of Onada's family members...& walked around the island with bullhorns yelling that the war was over. Onada, Shimada & Kozuka heard this from their friend & saw the notes but were convinced that their friend was captured by the enemy & it was all a trap.
Over the years his brother came & yelled on speakers to get Onada to surrender, Onada got within 150 yards of his brother & recognized him & his voice but still thought it was a trap.
Another time his sister did the same thing - he still thought something was fishy & refused to fall for the trap. People always left old newspapers around - from around the world , but mostly from the Philipines & Japan. Sometimes the stacks of newspapers were several feet high. They would read them all, right down to the "want ads". They still twisted things in their minds that the Americans had edited out all these papers & taken out the parts about the war - Onada thought the Americans went to all this trouble just to trick these couple of people on some isolated island.
For about 15 years they had access to a transistor radio & they would listen to stations all over the world - mostly Japanese but others such as the BBC. Still they couldn't wrap their heads around it that things were as they were being told from ex-soldier friends & family members. Finally after 30 years somehow Onada saw the light.
Lt. Hiroo Onoda spent 29 years on a Phillipine island fighting World War 2. When he was 22 he arrived on Lubang, fresh out of officer training, and reported in to an Imperial Japanese Army base to assume his duties as a junior intelligence officer. Shortly thereafter the steamroller of the US Navy, Army, and Marine Corps came rolling through and and Lt. Onoda retreated to the surrounding jungles of Lubang along with 3 other soldiars when his army base was decimated and captured. Lt. Onoda had recieved orders to continue the fight, even if it meant assuming the role of a guerilla fighter until he was formally relieved by a ranking officer.
One observation is that the ancient traditions and teachings of the Samurai (Bushido) were very much a motivational factor in the japanese military forces during the second world war. My second observation is that the devotion to duty and loyalty to an ideal can be carried further than many in the world of today could even think was possibile.
This is a must read book. I'd suggest that you familiarise yourself with the codes of Bushido first of all (Hagakure is a good place to start), so that you can better understand the mind set of Lt. Onoda. His descisions are largely based upon his upbringing and teachings and, (in my opinion) sadly, are somewhat foreign to the modern person. Wihout a small amount of familiarity with Bushido, or a knowledge of the ways of the Samurai, you might just view this story as a tale of s silly and ignorant man. I assure you that Hiroo Onoda was/is neither.