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He refused to surrender for 28 years… 🤯 #shorts #history #truestory

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00:00He hid from the world for 28 years, survived on rats and snails, and became a hero, all
00:06because he refused to surrender.
00:08This was Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier.
00:12When U.S. forces retook Guam in 1944, he fled into the jungle and simply disappeared.
00:18He wasn't just a soldier, he was a tailor.
00:21He used his old skills to weave his own clothes and build ingenious traps.
00:25For 28 years, this cave was his world.
00:29But here's the craziest part.
00:31Years into hiding, he found leaflets announcing the war was over.
00:34He knew, but he had been taught that surrendering to the enemy was the ultimate shame, so he
00:39chose to stay.
00:41When he finally returned to Japan, he was treated as a national hero.
00:45His first words to his country were, it is with much shame that I have returned.
00:50He survived the jungle, but he could never truly escape it.
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