Posted on 05/26/2005 8:12:52 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Edited on 05/27/2005 12:51:25 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Let see what happens. The jury is still out. We report what we know at this point.
My question would be, when in that 60 year period did this go from noble to just plain stupid? How do you not notice for 60 years that the war is not still going on. You never hear gunfire, you never get resupplied, you see people going about their business without fear, and yet you continue to hide.
But one thing is sure. If alive, then they have definitely heard gunfire and know about fighting still going on all around them (MILF vs. PI Army, etc).....
MILFs are fighting? Do you have pictures demonstrating this?
There was a guy on an island in the Pacific who still thought the war was going on until 1972.
What's your interest? What's your angle?
Yes. Skepticism about the Japanese go-between grows.
You can read the story here: http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=338503
FR = FreeRepublic Your profile showed that you had just joined that day, so I was welcoming you here.
The rest of my reply will have to wait until it's not 3:45 am. :-)
Time flies when you're havin' fun!
Though I mean that humorously, there's also a side that might be true...if these guys are for real, perhaps they were deserters who were enjoying the local pleasures.
I've sent something also to the other poster. It would be helpful and considerate if you all could/would observe Freeper rules and argue this irrelevant point (re: this own thread) on some other thread elsewhere. Thanks.
Lose the tagline.
I still think they should do DNA testing, analysis and matching on the remains of "Sgt. Nakauchi" in Japan, and find out for sure. I think it would be easy, knowing how Japanese graves are easily opened and accessible (for ancestor worship purposes). I think a Shinto priest could purify the proceedings so nobody got the chills about possible ghosts being upset.
Thanks for following this thread and contributing so much to the discussion.
You had good reasons (to doubt). !
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" ... It doesn't matter if he's credible or not. The point is, we have to confirm the information. So long as there is information we have to confirm it," Shuhei Ogawa, press officer of the Japanese Embassy in Manila, told reporters."
Has everyone become like the American Democrat Party? ;)
What amazes me is that there are so many that take reports made in published articles, on any event, as being entirely true.
While most articles have some truth to them, rarely are they entirely truthful and devoid of the writers own prejiduces or mistaken interperetation of events as related to them by others.
One need only look at a reported event one has been intimately part of to observe that much was omitted, or misrepresented in some way.
Okay ... so I'm a pessimist. ;)
Recall that the Japanese during WWII were blood-thirsty, suicidal maniacs, much like the Isalmists of today. Both are/were ungodly cults needing a good dose of Christianity.
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