"Is my second father Hanwha buried in the Chahar Martyrs' Cemetery?" I can go and see him now! Han Jiliang, the stepson of the Hanwha martyr, shouted excitedly on the phone. Han Jiliang will be sixty years old next year, and it has always been his wish to find the burial place of his second father, Han Hua, all these years.
Hanwha was born in 1925 in Huangshiya Village, Jingping Town, Pinglu District, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, and grew up with four brothers. One of the older brothers has become the pillar of the family, and two younger brothers have played behind them, although the family is not rich, but the family lives happily together.
Later, Hanwha took his family's concerns away from home until he died, and his family still couldn't believe it when they received the news. "My father was the eldest of the four of their brothers, and he smoked a cigarette all night in silence after he knew that the second brother had died in another village, and then he passed me on to the second father after I was born." Han Jiliang said.
Hanwha Martyr's genus certificate
"The specific year the second father joined the army, my father can't remember clearly, it's just when he became an adult." Han Jiliang tried to recall the past that his father told him when he was a child, "At that time, the Eighth Route Army came to the village to recruit soldiers, and the second father and teenager were bent on serving the country, so they enlisted in the army. ”
After Han Jiliang was born, he knew that the second uncle in the family was a martyr, and at a young age, he could not fully understand the weight of the word "martyr", but only knew that he should call the second uncle "second father".
"I was curious about where my second father went since I was a child, and I didn't understand why my father wanted to give me to a second father I had never met." Han Jiliang began to intentionally or unintentionally spy on some things about the second father.
In small talk with the old people in the same village, Han Jiliang gradually pieced together a less complete past: Hanwha's army was led by General He Long, and after defeating the Japanese devils, he had been fighting to liberate Jinzhong and Northern Jin.
After Hanwha's death, the troops sent someone to send a message to return a certificate and some living objects to his family.
"The second father was sacrificed in Hunyuan. In that war, the second father was shot in the abdomen, as if his back was against a cornfield, and he was hacked to death with bayonets by the pursuing enemy in this cornfield. Han Jiliang said that Grandma was crying and listening to these words.
The Han family was immersed in the pain of losing their son until Han Jiliang was born in 1962. When he was 11 years old, the Han family took the initiative to pass him over to Hanwha.
The father said that this is both a village custom and a comfort to the second brother. He sacrificed for the motherland and his hometown, the Han family can not let him go without a queen, I am the continuation of the second father's incense. ”
The heroic wall in the cemetery of Hanwha's hometown
In Hanwha's hometown, a cemetery was built for registered martyrs. Since the age of 11, Han Jiliang has been going to the heroic wall of the cemetery every year during the Qingming Dynasty, and over the years, he has also been looking for the burial place of his second father.
On September 18, the headline search platform published a notice to find the descendants of Hanwha martyrs, and pushed the news to the hometown of Hanwha martyrs relying on accurate pop-up technology.
"Some time ago, the volunteers who were looking for people in the headlines suddenly found our village and brought us the news of the second father! It's been almost fifty years, and I'm almost gone, but they told me that Chahar Cemetery is looking for the descendants of Hanwha martyrs! At a distance of more than three hundred and fifty kilometers, after hearing the news, Han Jiliang took a car to the Chahar Martyrs Cemetery alone that day to visit his second father, whom he had never met.
To commemorate the exploits of the martyrs, comfort the heroic souls of the martyrs, inherit the red gene, and tell the red story well; the headline search launched the "Search for the Descendants of the Martyrs" project, and cooperated with the Chahar Martyrs Cemetery in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province to "find the descendants of the martyrs". In the past successful cases, the media relay search for the descendants of martyrs, played a great role, the headline search for people sincerely invited media across the country to participate in the "search for martyrs descendants of the media volunteer service group".
If there are clues related to the descendants of the martyrs, please contact the headlines to find people (email: [email protected]; tel: 010-83434440, 010-83434485), there will be special staff to verify the information and follow up.