Narrator: Gao Binghan, 79 years old

Location: Taipei, Taiwan

[Photos from dzwww.com]

From 1942 to 1944, The Chinese government sent nearly 300 thousand soldiers to Myanmar to fight against Japanese army. In this war, 100 thousand Chinese soldiers were killed, and all Japanese soldiers in Myanmar were killed. On the border of Myanmar and Yunnan, China, more than a thousand graves are rested northward. According to the old caretaker, the graves are located this way because the soldiers’ motherland is in the north.

The Taiwan lawyer Gao Binghan is 79 years old, and he was awarded People Who Inspired China in 2012. He has sent more than 100 Taiwan soldiers’ ashes back to their mainland hometown. The first altar of ashes he sent is of Xu Dahui, who was an expeditionary soldier. On the 7th, August, journalist of dzwww.com took a plane to Taipei to visit Gao Binghan, who told why he sent back expeditionary soldiers’ ashes back home.

My father-in-law Shi Lianfang joined the air force to learn how to repair planes in 1937. In 1943, the Japanese army invaded Myanmar. The Chinese expeditionary army was sent to Myanmar for help. In one dropping of supplies, the enemy’s fire hit my father-in-law’s plane. Since my father –in-law knew how to fix planes, which is a valuable technique then, his comrade Xu Dahui, who was two years younger than him and just joined the army told him, “They need you at this critical moment, so you cannot die.” After saying that, he pushed my father-in-law aside and asked him to bale out. Then, the plane crashed immediately. Since the parachute was hung on a tree, my father-in-law survived. The war was a success, but Xu Dahui was buried on the border of Myanmar and Yunan.

Around the Mid-Autumn festival in 1991, Gao Binghan went to the border of Myanmar and Yunan, found Xu Dahui’s ashes and sent it back to Xu’s hometown in Liaoning, China. Gao Binghan said that was the first time when he sent the Expeditionary soldier’s ashes back to the Chinese mainland. In the following 20 years, he went between Taiwan and Chinese mainland frequently to send more than 100 Expeditionary soldier’s ashes back home to fulfill their dreams.

On 28, August 2014, Gao Binghan called journalist of dzwww.com, saying excitedly that Taiwan’s military has welcomed back the Memorial tablets of the Expeditionary soldiers in India and Myanmar. The Memorial tablets are rested in the National Revolutionary Martyrs Shrine. The soldiers have finally come back home after 70 years of drifting abroad.

“The China’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression played an irreplaceable role in the World Anti Fascist War.” said Zhao Yanqing. The Chinese battlefield consumed the military might and overall national strength of Japan, slowed down Japan’s invasion southward in the Pacific battlefield, and speeded up the success of the World Anti Fascist War. According to Zhao Yanqing, the Chinese people used their flesh and blood to win the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and made a great contribution to World peace.

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