Chapter 1265: I'm not afraid to do too much, I'm just afraid to do less
When an ambulance drove to Spring City with the old man Sun Xiaozhong, Li Mu and Liu Xin sat in a military SUV and began to sort out the next step of "finding the surviving Flying Tigers".
With Han Zili's news, it became natural to persuade the old man to go down the mountain, and the old man was excited to set off immediately at the thought of seeing his old comrades-in-arms.
More than a dozen soldiers took turns carrying the old man out of the mountain on folding stretchers, and after finding a bed at the town medical center for the old man to rest for the night, the convoy immediately set off as soon as the morning dawned and the ambulance from the military hospital arrived.
Li Mu was worried that the old man's body would be in trouble during the long run, so he thought about letting the old man hurry to the military hospital, so that everyone could breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, before getting into the car, the doctor from the military region first checked the old man's body and determined that the old man's physical condition was not bad, but he lacked nutrition for a long time, and lying all the way to Spring City was not much of a challenge for the old man.
Li Mu and Liu Xin and others squinted for a while in the car last night, although it was not very comfortable, but it was not a challenge for young people, after all, when Li Mu went to work in Beijing, he stood down without a seat ticket for more than ten hours, so it was a very good choice for him to sit and sleep for a night.
Liu Xinxin didn't have the pampering of the eldest lady at all, wrapped in a jacket, and she slept sweeter than Li Mu in the back seat of the off-road vehicle.
When the team began to return, everyone's physical strength had recovered a lot, and Liu Xinxin's workaholic nature began to be gradually exposed, holding a bunch of documents and materials, and meticulously combing them out.
At present, this public welfare activity has not been officially announced to the public, Li Mu and Liu Xin hope to find all the surviving Flying Tigers who can be found first, and then gather them all to Spring City, on the one hand, to give them systematic physical examination, treatment, and recuperation in Spring City, on the other hand, to reunite the old people, so that the story of the old Flying Tigers can be systematically sorted out through their oral telling.
In addition, a professional photography team followed the whole process of the public welfare activities, which also ensured that these processes could be completely recorded, and through editing, a large-scale documentary was created that was enough to move the people of the whole country.
Liu Xin said: "Next, our volunteers will continue to go to various places, just like our contact with Mr. Sun, to bring more Flying Tigers to Spring City, and at the same time, Mr. Li, you have to communicate well with the United States, and arrange for the old Flying Tigers from the United States to come to Spring City as soon as possible to reunite with other comrades." β
Li Mu nodded: "I have already coordinated with Spielberg, he will try to find as many old Flying Tigers in the United States as possible, and persuade them to come to China, I think it is best that we can also send a film crew to the United States to follow up and interview these old people, not only to their homes, but also to interview their American comrades-in-arms gathering, and then follow them until they are ready to leave for the plane to come to China." β
Liu Xin immediately nodded and said: "I still have some friends in the United States, I will contact them today to see if I can find a reliable American team. β
Li Mu said: "You are the specific person in charge of this aspect, you can decide, don't care about money." β
Saying that, Li Mu remembered something, and said: "By the way, about the matter of these old people coming to China, we must be sparing the cost, the larger the scale, the better, if their relatives want to come to China together, all the expenses will be borne by us, and the upper limit of relatives that each veteran can carry as long as it does not exceed ten people, we will accept all of them." β
Liu Xin was surprised: "So many people? Then I'm afraid that there will be about 200 people from the American Flying Tigers and their relatives alone." β
"The more the merrier. Li Mu said firmly: "You contact Air China in advance, and when the time comes, we will pay to lease a Boeing 747 of Air China, and then change a set of livery for this aircraft, and the nose of the aircraft will be shaped like the shark mouth of the Flying Tigers, and the fuselage will be spray-painted with the whole process and LOGO of our public welfare activities." β
Liu Xin said: "The cost of repainting the aircraft once is very high, and it has to be restored to the original state afterwards, is it a bit too wasteful?"
Li Mu waved his hand: "Don't worry, waste is waste, when the bill is for me, I will pay it personally, and I will not go through the foundation's accounts." β
"Not only these, but also communicate well with the media in the United States, let them also participate in the whole process, and regard this incident as a collective memory of two countries and two nations, which is the real meaning of the history of China and the United States, and let Americans understand this great history in their hearts. Economic development can be left behind in the face of world peace, and the Flying Tigers are the best proof of this, so this reunion of the old Flying Tigers, we must build up momentum, not only to let the whole of China and the whole United States know, but also to let the whole world know as much as possible!"
Liu Xin didn't know that "Flying Tigers" carries too much of Li Mu's national complex, he not only wants to show the Chinese people's contributions and sacrifices to the world to the world, but also to make the world aware of the positive image of the Chinese people, and at the same time, through this film, subtly make Chinese movies and Chinese culture more acceptable to the people of the world, in addition, he also hopes to use this film to let the world once again realize the atrocities committed by Japan against China during World War II.
Li Mu's attitude is very simple: history can be forgiven, but it must not be forgotten, let alone tampered with.
Therefore, whether it is for the movie "Flying Tigers", or for the charity project of veterans not dying, or to popularize the crimes committed by the Japanese during World War II to the world, Li Mu has an absolute necessity to invite as many American Flying Tigers as possible from the United States to completely amplify its influence.
Just imagine, if more than 20 members of the American Flying Tigers and more than 20 members of the Chinese Flying Tigers meet in China that spans decades and two centuries, it will be a grand spiritual party for the vast majority of the people, and it will definitely move countless people.
Seeing that Li Mu was particularly insistent, Liu Xin nodded and said, "I will find a friend to contact Air China, there should be no problem, but we have to set a specific time node as soon as possible, and then move forward according to the scheduled incident point." β
Li Mu nodded: "I'll contact Spielberg, this matter should be sooner rather than later." β
The impact of SARS has not really spread to the whole country, public activities must be concentrated in the current two months to complete, once it is April, the influence of SARS will explode in an instant, at that time if you start such activities again, the pressure will be very great, not to mention anything else, when the time comes everywhere, even if these old Flying Tigers are willing to come to China, their relatives may be prevented, but if it is delayed after SARS, considering people's caution and fear, it will be no time.
Liu Xin said to Li Mu: "By the way, Mr. Li, I have an idea, this time let's communicate with the Yun Provincial Government and seek the support of some local governments." β
Li Mu said: "What kind of support do you need from the local government? After all, the Flying Tigers are the history of the National Air Force and the US Air Force, and I am worried that the local government does not want to get involved too much in this kind of matter." β
Liu Xin nodded and said: "There is no need for the public support of the local government, that is, to give certain convenience on some issues, such as building a cemetery for the Flying Tigers in the Provincial Martyrs' Cemetery, which can be invested by us. β
Li Mu said without hesitation: " Okay, these ideas are very good, just do what you want, if you can, please also ask the military region to help us coordinate the relationship between the local government, if the cemetery is solved, then in the future, as long as all the Flying Tiger members are willing to be buried in the cemetery after a hundred years, we will provide them with proper arrangements, not only all the expenses of the cemetery we will bear, after the death of the old Flying Tiger members, as long as the ashes are in the country, we will send cars and volunteers to meet, but also arrange round-trip transportation for relatives, and even provide their relatives with round-trip transportation and accommodation expenses to Yunnan Province every year, not afraid to do too much, only afraid to do lessοΌβ
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After the old man Sun Xiaozhong arrived at the Chuncheng Military Region Hospital, the hospital immediately organized an expert group to serve Mr. Sun throughout the whole process, while giving him a systematic physical examination, while analyzing his nutritional status, the old man's body has many root causes, some of which are very serious, so the expert group held an emergency meeting to agree on a complete set of treatment and recovery plans for the elderly.
For the sake of these veterans, the military hospital specially vacated three large wards with a very good environment, each ward has eight beds, although there are many beds, the environment is first-class, and the internal facilities are also very perfect.
Immediately afterwards, the volunteers began to persuade other old Flying Tiger members to agree to go to Spring City for recuperation, Sun Xiaozhong was just one of the stubborn examples of the surviving Flying Tigers in China, except for the process of persuading him to come to Spring City, the other Flying Tigers did not hesitate to invite him to Spring City.
After Sun Xiaozhong arrived, volunteers began to travel from all over the country to identify the old Flying Tigers and their relatives to Spring City.
The staff of the foundation worked hard for these veterans to arrive safely in Spring City, and the volunteers of the old Flying Tigers who were a little farther away first contacted the local hospital, and used an ambulance to take the elderly to the hospital for a physical examination, and after confirming that they could take the plane, they were directly sent to the airport by ambulance, and the airport on the Spring City side also had an ambulance waiting, and the old man got off the plane and was directly pulled to the military hospital by ambulance.
The old man Sun Xiaozhong lived alone in the eight-person ward, to the ward with the first old comrade-in-arms, the second old comrade-in-arms, and then the old department he missed, Mr. Han Zili Han also arrived in Spring City, and the two old men who had been separated for decades finally reunited......