Hats off to veterans
Commemoration of the 43rd anniversary of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
Text/Li Zhizhi (Jilin Oilfield)
The years go by, the pace of time and my footsteps once again walked into the same place - a seafood food stall on the side of Dongxing Street in Guangxi, no step earlier nor one step later, on April 24, 2018, my lover and I traveled to dongxing, the border of China and Vietnam, and we met a group of heroes in our hearts.
When I saw the Special Car for the Veterans of the Cantonese War to Pay Tribute to the Martyrs, I remembered the movie "Fanghua", the eternal nostalgia of the veterans of the war was like a thick album, that is, the era of composing heroes with youth and blood, which was an era that made all the veterans of the war unforgettable.
In the early morning of February 17, 1979, on the 1,300-kilometer border defense line in the southern Xinjiang of the motherland, the rumbling shells crossed the darkness before dawn, and a shocking "self-defense battle against Vietnam" was launched, the roaring cannon was a roar of revenge, the steel gun in the hand was the oath to defend the motherland, the footsteps of the charge were the loyalty of the motherland, the blood-stained battle flag was the call of victory, the young soldiers were willing to cast the boundary monument of the southern Xinjiang border with their blood, and countless young soldiers left their precious lives and splendid youth in the red land of southern Xinjiang. Forever away from comrades-in-arms, forever away from relatives, forever away from the colorful human world, the gorgeous youth fixed at 18, 19, 20 years old. You are gone, walking in the splendid years, walking in the blood-stained youth, you have released the grandeur of life with your life, and you have interpreted the oath of defending the motherland with your blood.
The years go by, and time flies. The young warrior who leapt over the dragon and the tiger is now a pale face and two sideburns. Nevertheless, we can see in this group of veterans the shadow of fortitude, pride and hard work and dedication. They once dedicated their best youth to the troops, to the barracks, and to the cause of national defense of the Chinese nation! They are worthy of raising the people and worthy of the motherland!
Looking back on the past, how can we forget the years when they were in full swing, how can we forget the martyrs who sacrificed their lives in blood, and how can we forget the veterans who gave us peace?
Thinking of this, my lover and I immediately went to the hotel to buy three bottles of "Guilin Sanhua" wine, toasted the veterans and the families of the martyrs at three tables one by one, and saluted them as an ordinary citizen, hoping to give them a little warmth. Pay tribute to the veterans who fought bravely and stained the battlefield with blood, you will always be the heroes in our hearts, and salute the martyrs who died heroically to defend the motherland!
The relatives and comrades-in-arms of the martyrs have taken out martyr certificates and military merit badges, as well as the newspapers of that year, to show us that our tears and their tears are flowing in the wine glass, at this time, our heartache is the same as their heartache. The most impressive thing was the younger brother of a martyr, who opened the album he carried with him, and with tears in his eyes, he looked at us page by page, although we did not understand a word of Cantonese, but we kept listening. When one of the battalion commanders heard that we were from Jilin in the northeast, and that we also had a demobilized soldier who had won the second class in the self-defense and counterattack war against Vietnam, he choked up his trembling hands and said to us: Thank you for the deep friendship of the people of the northeast, thank you for not forgetting us, this year we have swept the tombs of our comrades in the northeast, today's liquor is not drunk, and we will leave it until tomorrow to the graves of our comrades-in-arms to drink for the comrades who sacrificed their lives...
One sentence made us burst into tears in an instant... Today's happy and peaceful day, who will defend with life, whose son? Whose husband? Whose father?
We should not forget, we must not forget, we should not forget. Today, in the name of a common man, I salute the veterans!