Dahe Newspaper Dahe client reporter Lin Chong correspondent Li Pan
Under the tall poplar trees, there are square grid fish ponds everywhere, the huts guarding the fish ponds look simple, but they carry the hopes of the family and the desire for a better life in the new year, this is the scene that can be seen everywhere in the Yangqiao office located on the south bank of the Yellow River, time quickly flows back to a certain day in December 1978, Yangqiao Village gathered a group of people, of which 40 are teenagers wearing green military uniforms and cotton hats, they are Zhao Jingbin, Chen Guoshun, Ding Jingxi, Meng Junjun, Wang Junfu, Yong Tielin, Wu Yuzhan, Hao Yusuo, Gu Xinji, Li Xiaocai, Liu Jingsen, Zhang Guolin... They were assigned to study in four specialties of a regiment of the Kunming Military Region, such as drug detection, washing, showering, and fire spraying. In 1979 and 1983, he participated in two batches of self-defense counterattacks against Vietnam, and some of them also won the honor of third-class merit in wartime. After the end of the war, most people returned to their hometowns to work as farmers, married wives and had children until now.
Today, after 37 years, it is these unknown veterans of the anti-chemical warfare profession who have taken the initiative to meet downstairs in the Yangqiao office and hand over to Xiao Hui, secretary of the Yangqiao office, a copy of the "Letter of Request for War" with a red embossed fingerprint, which solemnly writes: "We are twelve veterans of the anti-chemical warfare in the jurisdiction of the Yangqiao office, who have participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, in this extraordinary period of epidemic prevention and control." We do not retire from the army, and do not forget the original mission. In this extraordinary period of epidemic prevention and control, we are specially asking the Yangqiao Party Working Committee and the office to fight, we promise to obey the command, come as soon as they are called, fight when they come, and win the battle, in this fight against the epidemic, please act as a commando, please assign us to the front line of epidemic prevention and control, use us to master some basic knowledge of anti-virus and disinfection in the army, and make a little contribution to the people in our lifetime!"
How simple and simple, without any bold words, without any decoration, the freeze frame of life is displayed in "make a little contribution to the people in their lifetimes!", the average age of 12 anti-chemical warfare veterans is between 57 and 65 years old, with the consent of the Yangqiao office, they and young people are assigned to various important checkpoints, patrolling at the checkpoint together, measuring the temperature of people entering and leaving the checkpoint together, washing away foreign vehicles together, and seeing their figures in the epidemic prevention and control work...
Source: Dahe Client Editor: Li Chunmei