Mount Halcon

With one deft whirl and then a downward slash of the keen steel blade, he can cleave the skull of an opponent from crown to teeth or cut an arm clean from the shoulder socket.

When I was sent with a squad of brave men from my company to reconnoiter from Mount Halcon in the island of Mindoro, and the force was ambushed, the way I saw the men meet death will always make me hate a Moro.

Why I was spared then and bound instead of being killed like the men, I could not imagine.

Later I knew.

A Japanese newspaper reported that Captain Fumio Nakahara was still holding out as late as 1980.

He was reportedly hiding near Mount Halcon on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines.

A search team was sent there, and they supposedly found his hut, but they didn't find any evidence of him or that he was alive.

There were sporadic rumors as late as the early '90s of Japanese holdouts in the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, but no substantial evidence was ever found.

With one deft whirl and then a downward slash of the keen steel blade, he can cleave the skull of an opponent from crown to teeth or cut an arm clean from the shoulder socket.

When I was sent with a squad of brave men from my company to reconnoiter from Mount Halcon in the island of Mindoro, and the force was ambushed, the way I saw the men meet death will always make me hate a Moro.

Why I was spared then and bound instead of being killed like the men, I could not imagine.

Later I knew.