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The Summer 7th, 1941. It's history. A date which will live in infamy.

The events.

The events.

But have myself not quite to the most best of all your relatives from this time and place.

I take pride in the words the figure is being I'm the arena. Mr. Robert Ross

tear down this world. The drama. The Dean first year. I welcome this kind of examination because

people have got to know whether or not their presidents are corrupt. Well I'm not a corrupt.

If we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from

here for a man. It's hardcore history. In 1944, when the Second World War is raging,

especially in the Pacific, especially around the Philippines, the young Japanese soldier,

a guy in his early 20s, is dropped off on one of the innumerable, heavily jungled Philippine

islands and is told to do what he can to hamper allied activities in the area.

To continue fighting until he hears orders to the contrary by the commanding officer who sent

him on the mission. This soldier, hero, Onoda, Asian convention would switch that around and he

be on the hero will follow his orders until his commanding officer tells him he can lay down his

weapons. And he will eventually come out of the jungle into a clearing, hand over his sword,

standard attention while the guy who ordered him into that jungle in the first place formally dismisses

him with honor. And this happened on the 9th of March 1974, 1974.

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