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Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Most of the Japanese World War II suicide-mission dive-bombers (“kamikazes”) were successful, but a few failed pilots are still alive (their missions aborted because of weather or equipment failure), according to a Los Angeles Times dispatch in September. These days, they resent being compared to extremist-Islamic suicide bombers, who, the kamikazes say, act out of hatred rather than love of country and who do not always aim at military-only targets. On the other hand, one of the survivors said that many kamikaze “volunteers” were, contrary to legend, reluctant to die but caught up in patriotic fervor.
Joseph Manuel Augusto, 37, and Andres S. Diaz, 52, chased each other around a Burger King in Stratford, Conn., in July after Augusto had become enraged that Diaz had occupied the men’s room too long; Augusto was flailing at Diaz with a small pocket knife, and Diaz at Augusto with a straw dispenser.
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