Source: People's Liberation Army Daily client · China Military Number
When night falls, the lights are on, the footsteps of the New Year step into the atrium of the heart, on this day of reunion, I once again think of my father - he is not only a glorious soldier, but also my hero.
My father, Ye Xiang'ou, was an anti-aircraft machine gunner in the former Kunming Military Region, and he was always talking about his military time.
The story of the barracks was told by him over and over again, and slowly, I understood the preciousness, and following in his footsteps, I also put on the camouflage suit.
Ye Minghui
He enlisted in the army in December 1990, and I enlisted in the army in September 2020, and after nearly 30 years, I returned to the years that my father loved so much.
He enlisted in the army at the age of 17, I joined the army at the age of 20, a full 3 years younger than me, so young age should have suffered a lot, how much grievances, I don't know if he would be as homesick as when I joined the army...
Ye Xiang'ou training photos when he was young
Although my father was only 17 years old when he joined the army, although he was young, his blood and hard work were definitely the strongest, because he was too young and tall to compare with the soldiers of the same year, but he never recognized it. Training always rushed to the front, never hid from the side, others can not eat the suffering he can not eat, so that all his military training is excellent, so he was organized into the top class, representing the brigade to participate in various competitions can get the rank.
Once in a military district competition, my father suddenly became weak in his arm during horizontal bar training because of a serious cold, accidentally fell from the horizontal bar, and was sent to the hospital for surgery, but he was hospitalized for more than three months before he fully recovered and asked to return to the team. Because the registration time for the division training team was coming soon, my father was afraid of missing this opportunity because of hospitalization, and his body was still determined to sign up.
Ye Xiang'ou was on duty when he was in the team
I remember asking my father why he didn't have a good rest and had to go to the training camp. I will never forget my father's eyes at that time, but he looked into the distance but was extremely determined, "Since I joined the army, I have been the best in the eyes of everyone, although everyone advised me to take good care of my illness at that time, but I just wanted to challenge it, and I wanted to prove to everyone that I could." ”
In the face of the intensive training of the training team, the father, whose physical strength and body have not yet fully recovered, naturally cannot eat and finally tires of pulmonary edema. After being taken to the hospital, a needle longer than a finger was inserted into the body, and the water of the two needle tubes was drawn. I covered my mouth as I listened, but my father touched my head and smiled and said, "Don't you say, it's not because of this training, I didn't know that such a long needle could penetrate it, and it could also pump out so much water."
A joke is that my father did not make me afraid and not make me feel sad. But where did he know that when I covered my mouth, the tears couldn't stop flowing down.
When the leaders of the company came to visit him, they advised him to return to the team, and there were still so many opportunities when this opportunity was gone, but his father's reason was always, "They are all coming, where is the reason for going back halfway?" "My father insisted on persevering until the last day of the training with strong willpower, and successfully represented the division in the military region competition.
When I was a child, it was the level of father and daughter, and every time I heard my father tell this story, I didn't understand it, and I felt that he was stupid at the same time.
Now, as fellow soldiers, incomprehension has become respect and admiration, and I feel that soldiers should be like this, not afraid of suffering and tiredness, and always carrying honor and mission on their shoulders.
When he did the life-threatening craniotomy, he did not tell his family, less than twenty years old but has a steely will, this is his filial piety to report good news and not worry; he still takes the initiative to go to the training ground to practice after training, and no one forces him, although he is hard, he is always constantly improving himself, this is his "karma is good at diligence and absurdity"; he plays football, reads, learns guitar after practicing, and his amateur life is rich and colorful, which is the enrichment of his "standing up to establish a school first".
Ye Xiang'ou used his spare time to study when he was in the team
Looking back on the bits and pieces of getting along with my father over the years, I am grateful for the selfless love he gave me, thank him for teaching me the principles of life, and thank him for carrying the family to bring me a sense of security. In my memory, my father always showed regret for retiring from the army, or emotional resonance or ideal convergence, and this blood of defending the family and defending the country and unrepentant youth has always boiled in my heart.
Now I am also in this glorious collective, remembering my father's teachings, shouldering my father's expectations, shouldering the responsibility and mission of defending the country and the people, and improving myself.
Ye Minghui is training
Different from the female soldiers in everyone's cognition, after joining the army, I also learned about the air defense for the first time, and the training was not a communication wiring or a hygienic needle delivery, but a shoulder carrying more than a dozen kilograms of weapons and equipment on the training ground. Being in Tibet, stationed on the border and guarding Xinjiang, I am well aware of my father's ardent expectations for me. Although my father never asked me, every time I called home, I could feel his relief and joy from a few words.
Father, you said on the day I joined the army: "Your past twenty years have been my treasure, but now that you have grown up, you should be examined by the motherland, and you should be a revolutionary soldier who stresses politics, righteousness, and courage to take responsibility, and dedicate your youth in the battle position." It's spring again, Father, I want to say to you: your daughter has grown up, your regrets I have filled, your pride I have completed, your safety I have guarded, your daughter who has worked hard for twenty years has been delivered to the country, please rest assured. I will follow in your footsteps, strive to strengthen the army, bravely strive for the first, live up to Shaohua, and send you the best New Year gifts.
Ye Minghui family portrait
(Produced by the People's Liberation Army Daily client and China Military)