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Recently, in Jiangkou Township, Luzhai County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, 90-year-old Mo Zhaoming walked toward a martyr's monument with great strides through the "gaze salute" of neighbors and singing military songs. This monument is home to the martyrs who once guarded Eguchi Township.

In 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army went to Jiangkou Township to participate in the battle against bandits, and a unit met the bandits in the mountains and fought fiercely, and several soldiers were unfortunately killed. When these martyrs died, most of them were hastily buried in the wilderness.

In the same year (1950), the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea began, and Mo Zhaoming, who was only 16 years old at the time, joined the Chinese Volunteers and went to Korea to fight. He marched for nearly a month and a half with insufficient fried rice and fried noodles to the front line of Maliangshan. In the Battle of Maliangshan, Mo Zhaoming served as a correspondent, responsible for pulling telephone lines in the battlefield full of bullets to ensure smooth communication on the front line.

Mo Zhaoming, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

When you get to the blockade, you have to run over, as soon as the shells stop, you have to pass (the blockade line), you have to pass, you don't pass, the enemy's shells will hit. The whistling is far away (shells), it doesn't hit the place (where I am), (encounters) the near (cannonballs), tell you to lie down and you lie down, all the old soldiers tell us.

【Commentary】However, the battlefield is impermanent, and the war is unpredictable. The deputy instructor who was with Mo Zhaoming was hit by a shell, died and buried in the Korean battlefield. And this deputy instructor is also Mo Zhaoming's fellow villager in Jiangkou, and the failure to bring him back to his hometown of Jiangkou has become Mo Zhaoming's regret for many years. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Mo Zhaoming retired from the army and returned to Jiangkou Township to work as a farmer.

In the 20s of the 70th century, the township government staff proposed to Mo Zhaoming to gather the remains of martyrs who died in the local area during the battle to build a monument to the martyrs.

Since then, Mo Zhaoming has been guarding the hillside, and he often comes to visit and clean up the martyrs every year. Mo Zhaoming frankly said that not being able to personally pay homage to his comrades-in-arms who were buried on the Korean Peninsula became a regret in his life. Mo Zhaoming pinned this "comradeship" on this, and settled the martyrs well, which became a responsibility on his shoulders. Today, Mo Zhaoming has accompanied these martyrs for nearly 60 years.

Mo Zhaoming, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

Our comrades-in-arms died in a foreign land, and they were all buried in North Korea and never returned. So I feel very sorry for the martyrs who died in Eguchi, because because they gave their lives and blood to the people of Ekou at a young age, so I often came up to clean up.

【Commentary】Qingming approached, Mo Zhaoming came to the Martyrs' Monument to pay homage, he caressed the name of the martyr on the inscription over and over again, and solemnly saluted the monument. Then, he picked up a polished bamboo broom and swept the fallen leaves in the cemetery.

【Commentary】Nowadays, as the stories of these martyrs are known by more and more people, Mo Zhaoming also takes on the explanation of the Martyrs' Monument to convey this history to more people.

In recent years, Mo Zhaoming has learned from the news that the remains of nine batches of 913 martyrs of the Chinese Volunteers have been brought back to their hometown by special plane, and his eyes have more light, and he hopes that his deputy instructor can return to his hometown one day.

Mo Zhaoming, a veteran of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

I also often see the news that (China) uses a special plane to bring back the martyrs who died in the volunteers, and our deputy instructor, if he can pick it up, it will be better, there is no need to be in a foreign country.

Reporting by Liu Juncong, Wei Guozheng, and Liuzhou, Guangxi

Responsible Editor: [Li Ji]