Since 2003, Liu Dewenli has traveled to and from the mainland of Taiwan hundreds of times, bringing back the ashes of nearly 200 veterans who died in Taiwan to the mainland for burial. In the past 18 years, his footprints have spread to more than 20 provinces and regions, helping many deceased veterans to realize their "homecoming dreams". Among them, in the two Guangdong areas, which are closer to Taiwan, there were many Guangdong and Guangdong children who went to Taiwan at that time.
From time to time, Liu Dewen also received requests for help from relatives in Guangdong and Guangxi to help find the burial place of the veterans who came to Taiwan, and sent their ashes back to their hometowns to help the elderly fall leaves and return to their roots. To this end, he searched all over Taiwan for cemeteries and naku pagodas, trying to find a way back home for these departed veterans.
In Kaohsiung's Maoxiong Cemetery, thousands of deceased veterans are buried. Most of these veterans have no families in Taiwan and have no one to rely on. Many veterans have lived a life of poverty all their lives, and their thoughts about their homeland can only be silently suppressed in their hearts, until they die.
Liu Dewen shuttled through the overgrown cemetery, and he sorted out, photographed, and recorded the list of veterans buried in Maoxiong Cemetery. Although the information on the tombstone and the altar of columbarium is limited and it is very difficult to find relatives, Liu Dewen is still willing to try his best, but also so that more veterans who died alone can return to their hometown.
In recent years, As a volunteer in Taiwan, Liu Dewen has worked with the Headline Search for People and Cross-Strait Family Search Public Welfare Project Team to find roots and relatives for the separated families on both sides of the Strait, and nearly 300 families have been able to regain the news of their relatives.
Now, Liu Dewen sent the information he had about the single-deceased veterans to the search group, hoping to use the power of the Internet to find mainland relatives for these veterans and help the elderly fall back to their roots.
The object of this search is Zhang Zhiming, a veteran from Guangxi, the information is summarized as follows, I hope you can help forward it and help the veteran find his relatives:
Name: Zhang Zhiming
Ancestral home: Xing'an, Guangxi (now part of Guilin City)
Date of birth: October 18, 1917
Died: December 12, 1984
If you can provide more clues about Zhang Zhiming's relatives in mainland China, you can email us ([email protected]) to help the deceased veterans find their hometown relatives and let them return to their roots. If you also have relatives lost in Taiwan, or if you are in Taiwan and want to help Taiwanese veterans find their relatives in the mainland, you can also contact us through the Facebook fan page (name: Toutiao Finder).
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