On October 25, 1944, during the Battle of the Leyte Gulf, Ensign Masajiro Miyashita flew his Zero toward the USS Kaloli, then pulled up at the last second and deliberately flew past the carrier without attacking, landing instead at a nearby airfield. He was captured and later testified at the tribunal that he had decided in the air that he could not kill so many people. He served three years in prison and returned to Japan, where he became a Buddhist monk and spent the rest of his life writing anti-war poetry. He died in 2015 at age 92. His most famous poem, translated into English in 1987, reads: "The wind does not ask / before it scatters blossoms / So I chose to ask."