Posted on 06/03/2006 11:38:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
It was not the size of his "balls" but the size of his conviction at that moment - that "taking a stand" at that moment was worth risking his life. Many others in Tianamen Square did similarly that day and paid with their lives.
I was in a small Chinese language book store in New York City that day. The staff had little time for the customers. Everyone was listenting to a radio or watching a TV, while talking on a telephone to someone in China, letting them know what was really going on. It was as much as "being there" as was ever possible for me.
You could see and hear the mixture of profound anguish and profound hope in the faces and voices of the Chinese staff as they spoke to their compatriots in China. None of the customers or visitors attempted to turn the staff to conducting the business of the store. No one seemed to miss the fact that something much more important was going on.
Same here. It's hard to believe the ChiComs would let him slip through their claws.
FANTASTIC!
I pray Wang Weilin has a long and happy life.
According to their website, the National Palace Museum has a southern branch.
http://www.npm.gov.tw/index.htm
ARMY TROOPS FIRE ON BEIJING CROWDS
by
Allan J. Favish
[This letter to the editor was first published in the Los Angeles Times on June 10, 1989, part II, at page 9. The letter was in response to the Tian An Men massacre by Communist Chinese troops.]
Dear Editor:
Seeing the televised excerpts of demonstrations at the various communist Chinese embassies and consulates throughout the United States, I noticed that the demonstrators appear to be almost exclusively people of Chinese descent. This disturbs me. Although the fight for freedom in communist China is primarily the responsibility of the Chinese people, it is a fight that should be actively supported by all people who cherish freedom.
Personally, I believe that if freedom-loving Chinese citizens are willing to take a bullet in the back at Tian An Men Square, the least I can do is demonstrate in support of their cause in front of the Chinese consulate on a safe street in Los Angeles.
On June 4th I was one of the relatively few Caucasians at the demonstration in front of the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles. A makeshift memorial was assembled consisting of candles, flowers and a makeshift coffin. As I stood near the coffin, a young man of Chinese descent, wearing a black shirt, approached the memorial. On the back of his shirt was the color photograph that appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Times showing the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tian An Men Square with the large picture of Mao in the background. After leaving a flower near the candles, the young man placed a small American flag on the coffin and quietly walked away.
My eyes were filled with tears.
Regards,
Allan J. Favish
http://www.allanfavish.com
Archaeologists are more than just pretty faces!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/
Would tank man have gotten away alive without General Secretary Zhao Ziyang.
The (should be)--> There
NOpe, just continue to let the haves have more rights say whe4n they run over peasants.
Precisely, I was just about to bring up a map to clear the fogginess. I lived in the mountains near the National Palace Museum, and it was Northern Taiwan, not Southern.
I would like to know more about the tank driver who refused to run the guy over. I think that took just as much courage as he may be in deep doo doo.
Amen to that.
Sa bin you tiao.
There are so many works that they are never even close to all being displayed. And, most are stored in central Taiwan in a huge underground climate controlled bunker.
A new branch will allow more to be exhibited.
Thanks TallHappy...suppose he won't be working at the same place now. But cheers to his conviction and courage.
He's certainly got a set of brass ones...
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