We had lunch with an elderly stock trader and his wife today at this Thai place in the Capital Mall. After friendly, ritualized greetings and cheery banter, the gent let it slip that his father was a KMT soldier. That immediately grabbed my attention. Upon further questioning I discovered that his father was a Chinese Air Force pilot, (which he referred to as the “Flying Tigers”, which was an American unit), and he kept emphasizing that “he fought the Japanese, NOT the communists”.
It turned out that he HATED the Japanese, and for a very good reason: He told me that his family of 10 was fleeing to Chungking with the Imperial Japanese Army in full pursuit, but Japanese cavalry managed to catch up to them. The Japanese started slaughtering the refugee convoy, but his uncle had enough sense to hide his family in a haystack. Unfortunately, his baby brother started to cry, and to prevent the Japanese from finding their entire family and killing them all, his mother SUFFOCATED HIS BABY BROTHER TO DEATH so that the rest of them might live… What a sad tale… But it got worse.
He then told me that after his father retired from the air force, he stayed behind on the mainland rather than go to Taiwan, thinking that he was not a KMT member so he would be fine. But the communists, being the traitorous DOGS they are, locked him up for TWENTY YEARS, for no other reason than the fact that he fought Japan, killed Japanese, defended China, and was a HERO. He died in prison. Calling them commie bastards would be an insult to bastards everywhere.
Stories like these make my blood boil. His father gave so much to defend China, yet died a condemned man in the very country he was risking life and limb to protect… 一定要為這些抗日英雄的英靈平反！
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