October 16 marks the third anniversary of my father's death. This article should be my father's third anniversary memorial.
Father's memorial service
Born in 1928, his father joined the revolution in 1943. In 1958, when he became political commissar (deputy regiment level), he transferred from Tianshui City, Gansu Province and returned to his hometown. In 1984, my father responded to the call of the party and the state and left early.
Father's photo before his death
After his retirement, his father served as the secretary general of the county association for the education of the next generation, where he volunteered for 10 years. For 10 years, he led the staff of the Customs Work Committee to go to primary and secondary schools throughout the county to preach revolutionary traditions and patriotic education to teachers and students. In 1993, my father had the honor to attend the commendation meeting for advanced workers of the National Youth Work Committee, when Liu Shaoqi's wife Wang Guangmei was presiding over the work of the national Young Work Committee, and Wang Guangmei cordially received her father and took a group photo.
Father and Wang Guangmei take a photo
After my father changed careers at that time, he was arranged to serve as the secretary of the party branch in the county's only middle school and the highest school in the county. My father came from a martial arts background, and there were great differences in the style of doing things in the army and the locality, not to mention that in a working environment where intellectuals gathered, it was difficult for my father to observe and take care of the thoughts and emotions of each teacher, and the county leadership gang system was serious at that time, divided into Jinzhong factions and local factions. At that time, the county magistrate was a local and had similar combat experience to his father, and sometimes, when his father went to report to the county magistrate and chatted for a while, he was looked at by the people of the Jinzhong faction, so he assigned his father to the local faction. Therefore, my father was soon catastrophic...
My father went deep into schools to educate teachers and students in revolutionary traditions.
My father went deep into the school to preach
First, to believe in the army and the party, we must still more believe in the masses.
One day in 2020, I went to the proofreading office of the printing company to proofread the manuscript, and there I met Prosecutor Wang of the county prosecutor's office. Before, we knew each other, but never said hello. In the relatively small space of the printing company's proofreading room, we started talking. He knew that my father had been dead for more than a year, and he told me something we had never heard about him.
Prosecutor Wang graduated from a well-known university, and he entered the county high school to teach just after graduation. At that time, my father was the secretary of the school party branch. Because it was the first thing he encountered when he first joined the work, Procurator Wang still remembers it vividly.
At a general meeting of all teachers of the school, the principal announced that an eight-member task force headed by the principal would be set up to investigate the serious problem of the corruption of my father's living style and eliminate the scum in the teaching team. The reason was that the father had an affair with a young, out-of-town female teacher of the school and had been forced to submit. The female teacher herself wrote a letter denouncing her father, which was read out at the meeting. This shocking event that occurred at the top leaders of the school and was marked with peach color quickly spread inside and outside the school. After this incident alarmed the county, the county party committee and government attached great importance to it. At that time, the army was in charge of local affairs, and the county asked the military control committee to be stationed in the school to investigate and solve the problem. Members of the Military Control Committee talked individually with school staff to understand the situation, and they also conducted individual interviews with some of the more active and precocious female students. After a long period of verification and evidence collection, the Military Control Commission finally grasped the conclusive evidence, and the truth was revealed.
My father spoke at the school meeting
Therefore, the Military Control Committee presided over a school-wide meeting of teachers and students, at which the responsible person of the Military Control Committee announced the true situation of the matter.
It turned out that a few people led by the principal wanted to fight for power and profit, and they insisted on taking their father away, which was exactly what the Jinzhong faction wanted. They couldn't find out their father's weaknesses in other aspects, so they had to rack their brains and start with the peach incident. Therefore, he bribed the female teacher and promised her an official position and no need to stand on the podium when she succeeded.
Finally, the Military Control Commission made a fair and objective evaluation of his father's work performance and personal character.
As a result of this incident, my father was known to more teachers and students, and they had more respect for him.
His father was blessed with disguise and was transferred to the county bureau of culture and education as the director.
The perpetrator of his father's persecution was demoted, and the vixen female teacher, who was targeted, was transferred to teach in a remote mountainous area.
At that time, the leading body of the county revolutionary committee
Second, the party will rush wherever it points and carry out its tasks to the letter.
In 1963, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China launched a socialist education campaign in urban and rural areas across the country, which was called the "Four Qing" (clearing the division of work, clearing accounts, clearing warehouses, and clearing property). Teachers in a township school have repeatedly reported that the school's chief administrator has taken advantage of his position to deduct and embezzle money handed over by teachers and students for a long time. My father, who was the director of the Cultural and Education Bureau at the time, led a team to investigate the situation in the school after receiving the task from the county. After holding a meeting that afternoon to convey the spirit of the "Four Qing" movement from his superiors, the general affairs chief committed suicide when he returned home in the evening. His son, who was also a teacher, put the account on his father. In 1965, my father was drawn to a prefectural religious training class filled with teachers and the son of the chief provost. Not only did he hold a grudge against his father, but he also made a lot of noise in the training class, inciting other religious teachers. In the late "Four Qing" period, this movement became sour. As a result, in mid-1967, when my father was criticized as a capitalist walker, this group of religious believers represented by the son of the chief executive beat and persecuted my father, injured his left brain and left ear respectively, and suffered mental damage.
Group photo of parents when they are young
Group photo of parents when they were young
Third, the rigid bone shows its true color, and the light is bright and sees people's hearts.
When I worked in the unit, my old leader was a teacher, and he admired my father's integrity very much. An incident that happened to my father was mentioned several times.
When my father was the secretary for culture and education, the leader was a teacher in a school. Once, a county-wide teachers' meeting was held, and my father spoke at the conference. One of the things was to clarify the misunderstanding and grudge between him and the secretary of the regiment branch in the county high school and are currently the principal of a school.
When my father was the secretary of the party branch in the county middle school, the secretary of the school league branch was a student who fell in love with a female classmate during his studies, which was seething among the students and had a bad influence. His father, who was the secretary of the school's party branch, talked to him many times and asked him to pay attention to the influence of the masses. When he graduated, he asked his father to report to the county and keep him and the female classmate in school. My father did not comply. Later, he married this female classmate and also entered the teaching team, and he kept spreading bad stories about his father at the school below, saying that the persecution of his father at school was true.
After his father's clarification, the unknown teachers knew the truth, and at the same time, they also shut his mouth to slander his father.
My father attended the district-wide commendation meeting for caring for the next generation.
Father attended the district-wide recognition meeting
Along the way, my father also encountered villains who plotted against my father in the later county propaganda department and other departments. In the eyes of the common people, leaders who only see the scenery are fully displayed, how can they understand the hardships and turmoil of officialdom!
His father died at the age of 90. In my later years, I realized the vicissitudes of the world, and often said that the people who harmed me are dead, and my enemies are dead...
When my father was alive, we did not feel his scenery, nor did we feel the calamities and hardships of officialdom. No matter how big things are, my father always bears it alone, resists and supports it alone, so that we feel that my father's official career is such a turbulent and ordinary life.
Group photo of parents in their later years
Some netizens said that after a person dies, he will be gradually forgotten by the world, and will be completely erased in human memory and records after 50 years. It has been 3 years since the death of my father, and it stands to reason that in the minds of my children and descendants, there will always be a place, but it will gradually fade out in the hearts of outsiders. But today, a female teacher who moved to Beijing and taught in her hometown sent me the paper burning fee to commemorate my father's third anniversary, and pinned her deep nostalgia...
Dear Father lives forever in the hearts of his children!