Happy Birthday, Hiroo Onoda

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Japanese offier who famously hid out in the Philippine jungles until 1974, believing that rumors of World War II's end were just an Allied trick.

Still alive at age 91.

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I've read his book several times. Quite amazing, both in his ability to survive for so many years without apprehension and
to consciously deceive himself into thinking the war on-going despite the overwhelming evidence he encountered over the years that pointed otherwise.

Keith