"Dabie Mountain, the place is so big, where should we start?" Early in the morning of February 9, Lei Hongxuan, 45, of Nanzhao City, Datun Township, Qingfeng County, Henan Province, contacted the Dahe Newspaper Yu video reporter for help, saying that this year's Spring Festival, with the help of his nephew and daughter, he found out on the Internet that the burial place of the martyr Raven Zhou was "Dabie Mountain".
The unexpected harvest of the Spring Festival learned that the martyr was buried in Dabie Mountain
The Spring Festival is a traditional festival for family reunions. On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Lei Hongxuan and his family were excited because of the special unexpected harvest.
"My grandfather Raven Zhou was a martyr, and when my grandmother and my father were alive, they recited my grandfather countless times, and they knew that people had died, and they didn't know where they were buried, so they told us to continue to search..." Lei Hongxuan said that he and his eldest brother remembered this in mind, but suffered from no progress.
With the rapid development of Internet technology, many people in rural areas now have networks. This also helped the family to inquire about the martyrs' information.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the family talked about the search for the martyrs. Lei Hongxuan's nephew and daughter tried to log on to the China Heroic Martyrs Network, and found the relevant information of the martyrs of Raven Zhou in the list of martyrs from Henan! The family was thrilled to hear the news.
According to the information on the webpage, Raven Zhou was born in 1926, born in Henan Province, his former position was a scout, he died in May 1946, the place of sacrifice was Longhai Road, the burial place was Dabie Mountain, and the deeds of the martyrs are unknown.
"It's my grandfather!" Lei Hongxuan said that his family rushed to pay homage to the martyrs online to express their remembrance and admiration.
During the interview, Lei Hongxuan also showed the reporter a remake of the martyrs' information from the local inquiry, on which in addition to the martyr's place of origin, the date of sacrifice, the place of sacrifice and other information, there were also the words "Seven Vertical and Twenty Brigades", "This is the only information about my grandfather in the Qingfeng County Civil Affairs Bureau." ”
According to Lei Hongxuan, the data shows that Grandpa joined the army in August 1943 and left home. Later, the family did not expect him to return, but waited for the news of his sacrifice, which was only 20 years old at the time of his death.
"My grandmother was widowed for many years, pulled my father to grow up, did not suffer less, more than 20 years ago, because we did not know where the bones of the grandfather were, we pinched a 'face man grandfather' to accompany the burial..." Lei Hongxuan said emotionally, the family has a simple wish, his grandparents failed to stay together before they died, hoping that people can meet in another world after they leave.
Lei Hongxuan said that his brother treasured the certificate of martyr issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 2014, which read: Comrade Raven Zhou died in the Liberation War and was rated as a martyr. This certificate is specially issued for praise. He also said that when his grandmother and father were alive, the government had been paying pensions to give them love and comfort to the heroes.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has mobilized a number of locations to help find it
Lei Hongxuan also has a wish, that is, to find the specific burial place of his grandfather, to go to worship, if possible, he also wants to take the bones of the martyr back to his hometown and bury it with his grandmother.
To this end, after learning from the China Heroic Martyrs Network that his grandfather's burial place was "Dabie Mountain", he tried many times with the help of his family to find the burial place of the martyrs through the public service platform of the "Heroic Martyrs Praise" martyrs to find relatives, but he was unsuccessful.
On the afternoon of February 9, Lei Hongxuan and his family made a special trip to the Qingfeng County Veterans Affairs Bureau for help. After the warm reception of the staff, they also tried to help find the burial place of the martyrs, but still failed...
"We hope to ask the media and well-meaning people for help, there are many people and great strength, maybe there will be progress." Lei Hongxuan said that he noticed that the Dahe Newspaper had repeatedly published reports on helping martyrs find their relatives, and the social response was strong, so he specially contacted the reporter for help, hoping for the wishes of generations of people in his family - no matter what the result, hard work to find, in order to be at ease.
After receiving the request for help, the reporter contacted the relevant staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs of Henan Province for the first time.
"We understand the feelings of the martyrs' families very well and will do our best to help find them." The staff said that during the war years, the information left by the martyrs who died was very limited, and there were many unknown martyrs, which made the work of the martyrs in the later period of searching for relatives and finding the burial place of the martyrs face great challenges. For the search for the specific burial place of the Raven Zhou martyr, the staff said that Dabie Mountain is a mountain range, located at the junction of the three provinces of Eyu and Anhui, if you want to find the specific burial place of the martyr, it is not easy, not only need the help of many prefectures and cities in the province to find, but also need the three provinces to link, first from the existing martyrs' cemetery in the old revolutionary area of Dabie Mountain, there are tombstones, martyrs' tombs with names, "If the burial place is not in the martyrs' cemetery, but in the nameless mountain or collective tomb of Dabie Mountain, there is no tombstone, it will be difficult to do." ”
In the afternoon of the same day, the staff replied that the Xinyang, Nanyang, and Zhumadian Veterans Affairs Bureaus in the old areas of Dabie Mountain in the province had been arranged to help find the specific burial places of the raven Zhou martyrs, and if the search in the province was fruitless, they would also join forces with the veterans affairs departments in Hubei and Anhui to find them together.
Dahe News Yu video reporter Cai Junyan
Source: Big River Newspaper