IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER

     WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH., 2020
       IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER!

   I've told most everybody about my
childhood memory from 1945 when my
Dad allowed me to blow the car horn over
and over and the guy at the restaurant
put a huge pile of spaghetti on my plate!
I was only three years old!
    It was VJ Day. That's the day World
War II officially came to an end as the
Japanese surrender was announced to
the world.
    While it is not recorded as such one
could say the war didn't really end until
this date, March 11th., in 1974!
     That's the day Hiro Onoda finally
decided to give up!
      Onoda was a Japanese Army
Intelligent Oficer who didn't get the
word on the Emperor's surrender
order and hid out in the Philippines
for nearly 30 years.
       He had seen and read leaflets
about the end of the war that were
dropped in the jungle over the years.
He believed they were all just
American propaganda.
       They had to get his former
commander to come to the jungle to
persuade Onoda the war was long over
and he needed to surrender.  He did so,
in tears!
       Onoda died in 2014. He was 91.
       I suppose there's a lesson here
of sorts. It could be about never
giving up. Or, perhaps, it could be
about the foolishness of ignoring
warnings you get over and over!
        Hope you're wiser than Onoda
and that all your NEWS is good!