Caring for veterans, small towns in northern Liaoning are in action —— A street sample of caring veterans in Kaiyuan city, Liaoning Province ■ Huang Libin, Yang long, fan Qifei, reporter of China National Defense daily "Let people who have made contributions to the country, nation and society spend their old age in peace" is not only an attitude but also a commitment for Kaiyuan street, Kaiyuan city, Liaoning Province. Implementing the specific actions of caring for veterans to each street and community, and then integrating into the development context of the whole city, is conducive to vigorously creating a good atmosphere of respecting soldiers in the whole society. The practical exploration of small towns in northern Liaoning may provide us with a sample. —— editor A "under construction" red memory exhibition hall Hero's memory remains to be continued "Let Kaiyuan residents know that heroes are always around us." In the Kaiyuan Street Red Memory exhibition hall above Xindu community, Kaiyuan street, Kaiyuan city, Liaoning Province, Zhou Yukai, Secretary of the Kaiyuan Street Party committee, said solemnly. The 120 square meter exhibition hall is like a time tunnel, allowing the scattered memories of Kaiyuan heroes to be visualized. In the exhibition hall, a volunteer hero wall amazed the visitors. The front of the wall shows the glorious deeds of 26 volunteer veterans in Kaiyuan Street: they have participated in more than 70 large and small battles, won 1 great merit, 1 second-class merit, 12 third-class merit, 1 collective second-class merit, and won 45 medals. On the back of the wall, photos recording the happy life of veterans are scattered: when veterans celebrate their birthday, they receive a birthday cake that says "you guard the rivers and mountains for us, we hang you in our hearts"; The street printed the nameplate of "heroic spirit of heaven and earth, awe inspiring for thousands of years" for the veterans. The veterans stood at the entrance of the corridor and took a group photo with their pride; The community staff handed the 24 inch hardcover family photo to the veterans. The "smile" in the family photo matched the relief on the Veterans' face In the camera, the smiles of the veterans are very infectious, as if to tell the audience that the heroic memories displayed in the exhibition hall are not complete to be continued. "The heroic deeds are moving and moving. I hope they can spend their old age in peace on a happy day." The guestbook records the sincere wishes of the visitors. It is understood that the idea of creating a red exhibition hall stems from the party history learning and education started in March this year, which is also in line with the original intention of Kaiyuan street to guide social forces to care for veterans. Although the idea is good, the operation is not simple. In order to build the red memory exhibition hall into a red education position for Kaiyuan residents, Kaiyuan people's Armed Forces Department and Kaiyuan Veterans Affairs Bureau guided the whole process. More than 30 staff in Kaiyuan street and its 12 subordinate communities carefully read the county chronicles, found the deeds of Kaiyuan's Heroes in the war of resistance against Japan, collected historical materials, photos and cultural relics, and went to Dandong memorial hall to resist US aggression and aid Korea. Kaiyuan Street standardized and institutionalized the once scattered service measures, forming a situation of common prosperity, mutual promotion and synchronous development of commitment service and party history learning and education for veterans. On May 27, witnessed by the old heroes Han Dianmian, Chen Lin, Wang Hairen, Liu Deshan and Dong Panhai, the exhibition hall was officially opened to the public. So far, the exhibition hall has received more than 3200 visitors. During the interview, some manufacturers sent just finished activity panels. Zhou Yukai said, "this is to prepare for the exhibition hall to enter the campus for the next activity. Nearby schools can organize students to visit the exhibition hall, but it is not very convenient for schools far away. We made portable exhibition boards with the same content and went to schools to hold exhibitions, so that the hero story can be spread all over the city." A promise that can be said and done Multi action proofing for respect At the exit of the red memory exhibition hall, the letter of commitment from Kaiyuan street to revolutionary veterans in the district posted on the wall attracted the audience to stop. The letter of commitment covers all aspects of serving the Veterans' lives: organize party members, volunteers and grid inspectors to visit the Veterans' homes once a month to understand the living conditions of the veterans and take the initiative to help coordinate and solve what they can do; Organize home economics volunteers to clean the door once a quarter, including the corridor of the unit building where the old soldiers live; A monthly voluntary haircut, a door-to-door physical examination every quarter, cakes on birthdays and consolation products on traditional festivals "Caring for veterans can't wait and can't afford to delay. If we don't hurry up, I'm afraid it's really late." The offices of street Veterans Service stations and grass-roots community militia companies are on the first floor of Xindu community. The "recruits" of veterans come and go. It is not enough to only solve their "difficulty in handling affairs", but also to make an example of "being respected". All commitments are based on the needs of veterans. When asked what difficulties veterans have in life, they say "it's all very good" and "don't trouble the organization". Considering that doing a good job of caring for veterans requires the participation of government agencies, service system and social forces, on the one hand, Kaiyuan Street Party committee mobilized grass-roots Veterans Service stations and community grid members to come to the door to understand the needs of veterans, on the other hand, it called on social forces to participate and start with the services that social caring people and voluntary groups can provide for veterans, Select the service types that can really improve the quality of life of veterans. Many actions add weight to the promise. Under the publicity of the street party committee, all forces joined one after another, and the seven service contents were soon determined. After the opening of the red memory exhibition hall, they posted the letter of commitment in an eye-catching position, which can not only accept the supervision of the masses at any time, but also call on more caring enterprises, caring people and volunteer teams to join the ranks of serving veterans. The handicraft public welfare classroom established by Xingdong community is well-known in Kaiyuan. When Chen Ling, Secretary of the Party branch and commander of the militia company, heard that there were activities to serve veterans, she immediately launched studio craftsmen and volunteers to come to the Veterans' uniform photos and make paper-cut works for them, one to the home and the other to the exhibition hall. Lifelike paper-cut portraits bring blessings to the veterans. Based on this, Kaiyuan city promoted the experience and practice of improving the sense of well-being of veterans. For 83 veterans who participated in the war of resistance against Japan, the war of liberation and the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, with the theme of "awakening red memory and inheriting red gene", Kaiyuan City did a good job in caring service veterans in three stages. In addition to the 7 articles confirmed by the practice of Kaiyuan street, more socially influential activities such as condolences to the survivors of heroes, compiling Kaiyuan hero deeds and holding hero story competitions have also been added to condense the social consensus of caring for veterans. After the film Changjin lake was released, the people's Armed Forces Department of Kaiyuan city coordinated funds and invited veterans who had participated in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea to watch it for free. At the end of the film viewing, the representatives of the young pioneers presented flowers and red scarves to the old heroes and thanked them for their sacrifice and dedication to today's happy life. A "dream fulfilling journey" that says to go Old veterans return to Dandong "The idea of organizing four veterans with an average age of 90 to travel is crazy." Referring to a recent trip, Wang Jinling, deputy director of Kaiyuan street, as the team leader, was elated. "However, we did, and several old people were very satisfied." In the process of many visits and condolences, the staff of Kaiyuan street found that many veterans have a common wish - to return to Dandong and recall the passionate years. Kaiyuan west railway station has a direct high-speed railway to Dandong, which runs every day for only 2 hours. After learning that the veterans had this idea, Zhou Yukai thought it over carefully. Traveling is not wishful thinking. The key question is whether the veterans can bear it? Old age, cross city travel and excitement, there are hidden dangers in each item. Looking at the expectant eyes of the veterans, Zhou Yukai couldn't say no, "they dare to go, why don't I dare to lead the team? This is our responsibility." Knowing the arduous task, the street party committee carefully organized and carefully planned the travel route and logistics support. On July 15, after soliciting the opinions of the veterans themselves and their families, the "dream realization trip of veterans in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea" organized by Kaiyuan Street officially set off. As the leading role of the four veterans, the youngest is 87 years old and the oldest is 93 years old. Each veteran is accompanied by a family member, accompanied by the staff responsible for photography of the Party member education center of the Organization Department of the municipal Party committee, Street staff and doctors of Kaiyuan traditional Chinese medicine hospital. Although the funds are small, they try their best to make the elderly travel smoothly. In order to reduce the physical burden of the elderly, the community prepared four wheelchairs before travel. Knowing the particularity of the travel team, the railway station staff opened a green channel for the veterans. In case of only the escalator, they stopped it first, helped the old man to the elevator and then started it. Dandong Memorial Hall for resisting US aggression and aiding Korea is an important stop for the trip. "I've used this, and I've used this!" Veteran Chen Lin was excited when he saw Zhan Chen's weapons and equipment. He told people around him the story of fighting side by side with the "old man". At this time, the commentator would stop and listen to the Veterans' memories. Time flies. The old man has forgotten many old things, but he remembers that he once shot down a plane on the battlefield and won the third class merit. This is the glory of his life. Listening to the introduction of the commentator, the veterans also opened the conversation. When learning that veteran Han Dianmian was the protagonist of the "exploding telephone line" in the explanation, the commentator said that "this story should be told to us by the old hero". From commentators to veterans, more and more tourists gathered around the "veterans tour group". Tourists scrambled to take photos and talk with the elderly. Some parents introduced the identity and deeds of these veterans to their children, and the atmosphere of "star chasing" was full. When several old veterans raised their right fist and reviewed the oath of joining the party, many visitors were shocked. This trip to the museum is a mobile red education. After walking across the broken bridge of the Yalu River, veteran Cheng Xianlu stared at the surging river and said nothing for a long time. Dai Yuzhu, who accompanied him, told the street staff that the old man had been staring at here from the window of the hotel the night before and didn't sleep until 12:30 at night. The river is inexhaustible, and heroes live forever. For those revolutionary martyrs who died on the battlefield, we can't know their names, but their meritorious deeds are worth remembering forever. A group of warm-hearted volunteers Love relay on the road After returning to Kaiyuan, Zhou Yukai sent photos of his dream trip to Dandong to his circle of friends, which attracted praise from many friends. Among them, a Ms. sun found Zhou Yukai and asked him if he had similar activities to help veterans. She also wanted to do her part to do something for veterans. At the same time, these photos also attracted the attention of Kaiyuan Red Cross volunteer Federation, a relay of love around veterans. After comprehensive consideration, Zhou Yukai thought of veteran Cheng Xianlu. Cheng Xianlu joined the army in 1950 and was awarded the third class merit once. Two sons have died. Cheng Xianlu, 89, has only his wife and weak daughter. Dai Yuzhu, the younger son's friend, has been taking care of the elderly. The Kang at home is blocked, the vegetable garden needs to be turned over, and medicine needs to be bought to see a doctor... These are Dai Yuzhu's "responsibilities", which have been done for 13 years. Today, Dai Yuzhu is also very young. Kaiyuan Street Party committee wants to apply for some subsidies for him based on the idea of "not allowing good people to suffer losses". Dai Yuzhu waved his hand and said, "I'm retired. I have a pension. My children are at work. I'm doing well. I don't need anything." Cheng Xianlu's home is in the city