In 2015, due to work requirements, I had to frequently take some rebellious children who gave me headaches to visit a veteran of the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.
The old man was very cheerful. Every time we took our children to see him, he would get a haircut, shave in advance, put on a clean old-fashioned military uniform, and carefully hang all his military medals on his chest.
Of course, he prefers to tell his children about his comrades on the battlefield, those who returned home in triumph with him, and those who stayed there forever.
In my memory, he had a loud voice and was so powerful that he wished he could knock off the roof. People in that village also respected him. The reason they respected him was not because he was a veteran. It was because he was fair enough and never biased.
Not showing off.
Therefore, if any family has any conflicts or disputes, they will go to him for comment as soon as possible. The Liu Laosan couple in the story are basically the reconstruction of the scene I saw with my own eyes at that time.
He always said that he was a member of the Party and a veteran who had never faded from retirement. He could not discredit the troops he had served in.
Such a veteran, such an old man who likes to tell stories to children and is willing to help any stranger unconditionally. He clearly remembers what happened to each of his comrades, and he takes the trouble to tell the stories of those comrades to everyone.
A kid who wanted to listen, but I had never heard him tell his story.
Perhaps out of curiosity, I once asked him and expressed that I wanted to hear his own story.
At that time, he pointed to the large pile of military medals on his chest and said that he did not want to talk about himself. He said that he was just lucky enough to survive and was not a hero. Because the heroes have not come back, he is not qualified.
Tell your own story.
He also said that every military medal and commemorative medal on his chest was hung for him with his life by his comrades who could not come back.
Therefore, while he is still alive, he wants to let more people know the stories of his comrades who failed to come back, remember their names, know what they did, what they paid, and what they lost.
I don't know how many people like me have studied the article "Who is the Loveliest Person" like me? I don't know who can still recite the natural passages that were required to be recited at that time.
But the old man could memorize the entire article completely. He liked to recite it in front of the children, and loved to teach the children to sing the "Battle Hymn of the Chinese People's Volunteers" together, and even sang with the accordion as accompaniment.
The stories he told the children didn't have much truth, and they didn't describe how tragic the war was, but those very ordinary stories always calmed down those naughty children who I wanted to slap on the floor.
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That cheerful old man never preached war or force in his stories. What he always said on his lips was not about the level of consciousness, but - "Peace is so good."
I think that's probably why they are called the cutest people...
