Chapter 18 remembering, thinking, hoping

I looked at my father's gray hair and thin face, "Life is rare in the past seventy years", the 92-year life journey is really not easy.Looking at my father's life: farming and studying in his hometown, joining the army and joining the party, fighting against the "encirclement and suppression" five times, the one-year long march, the eastern expedition to Shanxi, the Red Army University, the Xi'an Incident, ten years of Kuomintang-controlled areas, moving to northern Shaanxi, Xibaipo entering Beijing, and rectifying the rightist movement , the Cultural Revolution, reform and opening up, collection of party history, retirement writing, until now, treatment for the elderly, the most profound experience in my father's life is the experience of the Long March when he was 20 years old.

I looked at my dad’s concentration while watching the TV series "Long March". He was recalling: the happiest thing in the Long March was the Zunyi meeting, which confirmed the correct leadership of Mao Zedong; the most dangerous thing was being bombed by enemy planes, causing casualties around him More than 60 close comrades-in-arms; the most painful thing is to have a toothache in the grass, the pain is unbearable, but I survived it. I watched my father copy Chairman Mao’s poems on the Long March more than a dozen times, stroke by stroke. He was thinking: Only under the guidance of the correct line can the Chinese Communist Party continue to win victories.

I looked at the solemn attitude that my father signed on the red flag of "The 70th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army". My father was looking forward to: the prosperity of the people and the strength of the country, and the reunification of the motherland.In my lifetime, Taiwan will return, and I will go to Baodao for a walk.