I want to open a little Zhang Baotong 2016.5.23

There is a lyric that says, "One step forward is happiness, and one step back is loneliness." "I don't think so, everything can't be absolute. In real life, we often encounter a lot of helplessness, can not get rid of and can not change things, in this case, perhaps we need to want to open a little, a little free, to "take a step back the world is wide" to comfort ourselves, eliminate worries, and seek peace of mind, which is actually a kind of wisdom of life.

I remember when I was in my first year of high school, the country began to implement the treatment of "veterans". I don't know the specific situation, but I heard my stepfather say that he would give the honorary title of "veteran", and the salary has also been significantly improved. The stepfather is a veteran employee of the 6th Engineering Division of the 4th Railway Bureau. Before 1942, he served as a machine gun squad leader under Lu Zhengcao, and in a battle against the clean-up, they covered the retreat of the large army, because the Japanese offensive was very fierce, all the soldiers in the squad were killed, and his own left arm was also pierced by a bullet. Seeing that the Japanese army had attacked, he lay down in the pile of people and pretended to be dead, but when he ran towards the village with his wounds covered, he was discovered by the Japanese again, and the Japanese soldiers chased him while shooting at him. Fortunately, he ran into the village and was hidden in the wheat pile by an old lady, and he escaped. Later, he returned to the unit, and the chief, seeing that his left arm was crippled and could not shoot, let him go home. So, he returned to his hometown in Renqiu, Hebei Province to work as a farmer. After liberation, he followed a demobilized railway soldier who returned from the front line to resist US aggression and aid Korea to repair the Baolan line, Baocheng line, Guikun line, and later went to Huangshan in Anhui Province to build the railway. After the implementation of the "veteran" policy, many people in the unit were awarded the title of "veteran". And he was the earliest and oldest person to participate in the revolution in the six divisions of the Fourth Iron Bureau, and he was a disabled soldier, but he did not get the title of "old soldier", so naturally he could not enjoy the treatment of "old soldier". This made him very angry. He is an introverted person, he doesn't like to talk about things outside, he holds everything in his heart, and until he can't hold it anymore, he will express himself in the form of anger. He went to the unit leader to reason, and the unit leader took out the relevant document and explained to him that he had a gap in history from the time he was wounded to the time he joined the railway, and he had lost a certificate issued to him by the military region at that time. Therefore, the unit required him to supplement this certificate before he could apply for a report. However, he had been away from the army for 30 or 40 years, and he had never been in contact with the troops and his comrades-in-arms, so who were he going to find to give him proof? So, somehow, he found out about a unit in Beijing and asked me to help him write a letter there, as if he had even written a letter to General Lu Zhengcao. However, I wrote four or five letters in a row, but I didn't even hear back. At this time, someone told him that it was useless to just write a letter for this kind of thing, and that he had to go to Beijing to find someone to do it. So, my father really wanted to go to Beijing to find someone.

He asked me to write him a resume and experience, and at that time, I thought that he was very old, in poor health, and illiterate, what should he do if he went to Beijing and didn't find anyone? So, I said to him, don't go, you are an ordinary worker, what does that title have to do with that treatment? Think about those comrades-in-arms in your class, who have sacrificed for decades, what kind of treatment do they have? Compared with them, you can survive, you are very lucky, don't worry about that little thing and make you upset all day long. When my stepfather heard me, he immediately dismissed the idea of going to Beijing, and since then he has not mentioned anything about the "old soldiers".