How I want to live
-- Remembering the comrades-in-arms in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam
Source: Dong Zihong
Editor: Zhang Bilin
Dong Zihong, 65 years old, is a veteran who participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. In April 2024, it will be 45 years since Dong Zihong withdrew from the war-torn battlefield against Vietnam with the participating troops. In January 1979, Dong Zihong's unit participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and withdrew with the unit in April. For more than 100 days, in the days of life and death, and artillery fire, Dong Zihong and his comrades-in-arms wore steel helmets and submachine guns late at night to lurk, patrol, and attack. Come back and lie down with a comrade and a submachine gun loaded with bullets in the headrest.
The righteousness of comrades-in-arms, the love of robes, bloody battles, and the mountains and rivers. Dong Zihong recalled the young comrades-in-arms who fell in the battle, the seriously injured robe, although 45 years have passed, now thinking back to them, it still makes people stand up solemnly, and tears flowed, he tearfully wrote "How I want to live":
How much I want to live, to watch the red sunrise, to live to love, to all the people who accompany you, how I want to live to get up with my comrades, to practice martial arts, to study, and many people are still asleep. If you want to live, you don't have to advertise, and you don't have to live to let the children not forget. Do you know how much you want to live, the moment when your comrades-in-arms die, stand and announce to people that you will come back even if I fall in a pool of blood; you know how much you want to live, in that fatal second, you will never say goodbye to your parents, brothers and sisters, and beloved girls at home. You know what? How I want to live and enjoy the sunset with my loved ones. How much I want to live, to become a sleeping cherry fairy on the earth, to bloom beautiful flowers in spring, and to grow into cherry trees. Comrades-in-arms robes, we are close to life and death, and Zicheng said, holding the hand of the son, living and dying together, without clothes for the day, and you are in the same robe.
Pay tribute to the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country. Dr. Dong, April 11, Jiachen year.