Since 2003, Liu Dewenli has traveled to and from the mainland of Taiwan hundreds of times, bringing back the ashes of nearly 200 veterans who died in Taiwan to the mainland for burial. In the past 18 years, he has traveled to more than 20 provinces and regions. Among them, in the land of Sanxiang, which is famous for the "Xiang Army", many Hunan children went to Taiwan in that year.
From time to time, Liu Dewen also received requests for help from relatives in Hunan, looking for the burial place of the veterans who came to Taiwan, and sending their ashes back to their hometowns to help the elderly fall leaves and return to their roots. To this end, he searched all over Taiwan for cemeteries and naku pagodas, trying to find a way back home for these departed veterans.
In the Neipu Township Cemetery in Pingtung County, Taiwan, thousands of deceased veterans are buried. Most of these veterans have no families in Taiwan and have no one to rely on. Many veterans have lived a life of poverty all their lives, and their thoughts about their homeland can only be silently suppressed in their hearts, until they die.
Liu Dewen shuttled through the overgrown cemetery, sorting, photographing and recording the list of veterans buried in the cemetery. Although the information on the tombstone and the altar of columbarium is limited and it is very difficult to find relatives, Liu Dewen is still willing to try his best, but also so that more veterans who died alone can return to their hometown.
"Many of the veterans buried here died after the opening of cross-strait visits to relatives in 1987, and it is very likely that they had contact with their relatives in their hometowns before they died, and then disappeared because of their deaths, and perhaps their relatives on the mainland have been searching for their whereabouts." Liu Dewen introduced.
In recent years, Liu Dewen, as a volunteer in Taiwan, has worked with the Headline Search for Relatives Charity Project Team on both sides of the Strait to find roots and relatives for the separated families on both sides of the Strait, and more than 300 families have been able to regain the news of their relatives.
Now, Liu Dewen sent the information he had about the single-deceased veterans to the search group, hoping to use the power of the Internet to find mainland relatives for these veterans and help the elderly fall back to their roots.
The object of this search is Jiang Yun, a veteran from Hunan, the information is summarized as follows, I hope you can help forward it and help the veteran find his relatives:
Name: Jiang Yun
Ancestral hometown: Ruming, Hunan (presumably Rucheng, now part of Chenzhou City)
Date of birth: February 10, 1914
Died: September 15, 1995
If you can provide more clues about Jiang Yun's relatives in the mainland, you can send us an email ([email protected]) to help the deceased veterans find their hometown relatives and let them return to their roots. If you also have relatives lost in Taiwan, or if you are in Taiwan and want to help Taiwanese veterans find their relatives in the mainland, you can also contact us through the Facebook fan page (name: Toutiao Finder).
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