Longest War

Maybe I should have said French and Indian War.


So when did combat end for Onoda? Maybe when the Philippine Army killed the last of his companions. I don't remember when that happened.

Also, Onoda served as an intelligence officer. He had gone to Lubang to watch American ship movements. He had alerted his superiors when the Lingayan invasion fleet passed Lubang. He continued in that capacity for 30 years until a superior officer ordered him to surrender.

As to the end of the war, maybe the the Japanese won in 1970 when they had access to Malaysian rubber, Indonesian oil, Australian plywood and coal, and American markets ... all the things that had lead them to war in the first place.

Onoda didn't know, or he refused to believe, that the war had ended.

For a while he had a short wave radio, which he stole from a local farmer. He knew about the 1964 Tokyo Olympic. He asked himself, "Could a defeated nation host the Oympics?" He thought the answer was no.

None the less, it had ended.

A friend of mine from high school told me that his great grandfather learned about the Japanese surrender while on a troop ship on its way to Kyushu.

Probably Gramps would agree with you.

when my grandma alive, when she was young. she was cleaning her toilet one day. the title boat man in the toilet, he told her that www2 was over!

Should I ask, "What is a title boat man?"

The Spanish American War has odd boundries like World War II. The official action lasted less than a year, but the Philippine insurrection lasted at least a decade, and the occupation lasted until the liberation by Japan?

years ago, there was tv commercial got on. i misspelled the word is " tidy " , so is " the tidy boat man ". you about over 20 years young to seen the commericals.

I think maybe toilets used to function as a sort of ancient social media. I thought about that during a lecture about ancient Greece. The speaker had a Power-Point picture of public toilets in an ancient Greek city located now in Turkey. The toilets numbered maybe two dozen in a sort of patio, and I imagined the Greeks debating the issues of the day, while depositing the issue of the moment.

in my 20's, i brought novelty item that might not fit this above.

it is an little outhouse that had an half shape of half moon on the door. when you open a man is turning back to you. more you open the door, the man starting turning to face you. when the door full open, the man facing you to pee on. ( real water came out of his corn cob. )

they had outhouses in ancient greece. actually, julius ceasar wasn't killed brutus and his collegues. no, the real fact that julius had bad eyes, and he was really drunk one night.

he stumbled into the closseum, and thought read the restroom on the door. but, julius misread the door's sign. it is said, " lion den ".

let us, the lions complained for a week, they had a bad case of heartburn.