Original photo taken June 18, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa according to blog.mikesryukyugallery.com.
According to "Map It! Okinawa" he was placed here in this position by a Feng Shui Master facing the Yaese Mountians to prevent fires.
The exact date of origin is evidently a mystery, but is reportedly first mentioned in an article written in 1689! Looking at the bullet marks.....oh, the stories he could tell.......
NOTE: I had taken some really cool pictures of Rodney re-enacting the original photo and a couple of good ones of what I think was a banana spider. Sickeningly, on our next stop, my camera fritzed and deleted ALL the pictures off my SD card!!! So, I guess now we'll just have to go back ;)
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