Guerrilla fighters are really gorillas

Whenever I used to hear the term "guerilla warfare" on tv, I thought that "gorillas" were starting fights with humans. I grew up during the time when "Planet of the Apes" was a popular new show.

Anon

In the early 70's on the news they always referred to "Guerillas" attacking Americans in Vietnam, I always thought they were "Gorillas" with machine guns.!

Anon

When I was little I remember hearing on the news how Arab guerillas attacked Israel (I was too scared to actually sit and watch the news on the TV). I litterally believed that these were wild man-eating gorillas sent by the Arabs to attack Israel.

Tammy

during the 70's there were frequent reports about African governments fighting 'guerillas'. Of course, I thought there were bands of armed gorillas roaming around, and I was always worried about bumping into them!

Col

I used to be very puzzled by the term, "Guerilla Warfare." My conclusion was that our soldiers were busy fighting guerillas.

Ed

once i heard the term gorilla on the news and thought that real gorillas were fighting kinda like planet of the apes

dan

After watching many news items about guerilla warfare and guerilla troops I believed that the jungles of Africa were full of heavily armed primates. I was shockingly old when I realised that this wasn't the case

Blencs, Brighton

When I was a youngster they first started talking about Gorillas in the jungle of Malasia fighting with machine guns!! I thought they really meant Gorillas not Guerrillas

Cousinjack

When I was young it was during the Korean War. The news would speak of Gorilla warfare. Everytime the news showed clips of the war and spoke of the Gorillas I would be scared to death. I thought the Gorillas were animals that were going to attack us.

P. Harvey

When i was a kid I remember watching the news with my
dad and hearing "ravaging guerrias invading the middle east"
and thinking they were talking about gorrilas.i would wonder how they escaped the zoo.i had this image of hundreds of gorrilas stampeding all over the place!

Jennifer

When They Spoke About Guerilla Wars
I Thought That "Gorillas" Had Guns And They Were Fighting With Humans For Their Freedom

VenkatSharma

I too believed that guerrilla warfare involved gorillas. When the newsreaders were reporting the latest guerrilla activity I used to watch the screen very intently, hoping to see the gorillas. I thought it was amazing, but none of the grown-ups were surprised so I assumed it must be normal. I thought I would be less amazed when I was a grown-up myself.

Anon

i used to believe that gorilla warfare meat that real gorillas where fighting in the place of people.
like in the american revolution when the americans attacked the brits in the forest.

is war real???

bob the pinecreek

When I used to hear about guerilla warfare on the news I always assumed that in some parts of the world the gorillas were having a fight.

Cath

When i was young i believed because of news reports of guerilla warfare that monkeys (gorrilas) where at war.Guess i must have watched too much planet of the apes.

Stu

I can remember listening to the news when I was a kid and they would talk about gorilla fighting or gorilla warfare. I could never understand why the gorillas didnt' get along!

Anon

while watching the news with my father when i was around 6,the newsman said that "guerillas had shot some soldiers in the war in the african congo".for a long time after i used to believe that the gorilla ape was going around the congo with guns killing people.it was a great relief to finally realise my mix up.

noel leon

I used to believe that the guerilla warfare I heard about on the TV news was actually being fought out by gorillas!

Snowy

I used to beleive that gorilla wars were fought by gorillas.

Professor Luke

I believed that guerilla warfare actually involved people fighting guerillas.

And I just learned that guerilla can be spelled with one or two R's.

JerryFromMini-soda