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Guerrilla fighters are really gorillas

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Guerrilla fighters are really gorillas

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I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.

— Mario

I was a kid during Vietnam and kept hearing about a guerilla war. I had no idea what a guerilla was, and a rough idea of war from tuig-of-war, and the card game War.

Then Planet of the Apes came out. I was petrified.

— Robert

When young, I used to listen to the news which I thought was boring. I didn't understand some of it especially when the news-reader frequently told us that another army group had been attacked by Gorillas. I imagined actual gorillas (Apes) attacking and could not understand where they all came from. Quite scary.

— Brenda

When I was young we would hear about the Gorillas fighting in South America against the armies on the radio and I always picture in my head armies of gorillas with helmets and guns fighting armies of people.

— Steve

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I used to think guerillas were gorillas,so when i heard of a an attack by gorillas imagined lots of angry gorillas terrorizing people

— calypso

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I used to think guerilla fighters in Africa meant chimps and gorillas with rifles storming the cities. i was terrified of monkeys at the zoo for years.

— Bazamataz

I used to believe that the Guerrilla fighters in Rhodesia in the 1970’s where real Gorillas. I became very confused when the pictures shown on the TV News always showed black men with guns jumping out of trucks and not Gorillas.

I think I must have watched the “Planet of the Apes” too much on TV.

— John, UK

I used to think that the Nicaraguans had trained gorillas to fight for them since it was always on the news about "guerilla warfare". It was the mid 80's and I was 10 or so. I had nightmares about killer gorillas for months.

— Jena B

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When I used to hear about guerillas fighting in the jungle in nicaragua on CNN I always wondered why the gorillas were fighting people.

— The Marc

I used to believe…

that Guerilla Warfare was called "Gorilla Warfare" and it's about fighting gorillas

Anon

As a child when I heard newsreaders talking about geurillas fighting I thought they meant gorillas (zoo type)and always wondered where they got the guns from.

— Lorraine

When i was ypoung I use to believe that the gorilla soilders out in the jungle were actually really groilla's fighting

— Pjpug

I grew up in the '60's during the Vietnam War.
I can remember hearing television new stories about the "gorilla warfare" going on and could just imagine the sight of actual gorillas jumping out of trees onto the soldiers!

— Linda M

I remeber hearing on the news when I was a child that Tamil Guerrilas had attcked the Indian army. I was amazed that Apes had finally declared war on Humans ( I think I might have recently watched planet of the apes)

Anon

I thought that when newsreaders spoke of 'guerilla fighters', that they were referring to actual gorillas on the rampage ;o)

— Siya

I used to believe that when guerillas were mentioned on the news they were talking about real gorillas - with guns and everything!

— Mikee

I used to believe that when I heard
of geurilla warfare that the the factions involved actually sent gorillas
out to do the fighting for them

— Duane Johnson

During radio and news broadcasts, I'd hear of "guerilla's moving in from the north", etc. I used to think they were actual gorilla's moving in a group and getting closer to Illinois (where I was from).

— Susan S.

From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.

— adrian

I used to believe…

That "guerilla warfare" involved real Gorillas.

— Geoffrey

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