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Blog @ Work #886692 added July 7, 2016 at 5:22am
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Hiding in the woods for 27 years
Seventh day of "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  [13+]
What's the first big news story you remember being aware of as a kid?
On January 24 1972 I was almost eleven years old. The newspaper had this amazing story of a Japanese soldier coming out of the Guam forest where he had been hiding in a grotto for 27 years. He thought the war was still not over and refused to ‘surrender’ to the locals. His name was Shoichi Yokoi.
My late mother had been a prisoner of war in the Japanese war camps during World War 2. She was born in Indonesia, until 1949 a Dutch colony for 400 years. When she was eleven years old she and the rest of the family came to the Netherlands by ship. A total of 300,000 repatriates came back between 1946 and 1968.
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