If we don't go to war,
The enemy used bayonets
Kill us.
Pointing at our bones and saying:
"Look, this is a slave!"
About the author: Tian Tian (19 16- 1985), a native of Anhui province, is the author of poetry anthology "Unknown Collection", "China Pastoral", "To the Fighter" and "Poetry Anthology of Anti-Japanese War".
Appreciation: if we don't go to war, then we may live silently and have no dignity; If we don't go to war, we may die down and out, meaningless. In a country as vast as China, if we are invaded, if no one contributes to the country, and if we have not shed blood for the independence of the country and the dignity of the nation, then our country will not exist and our nation will disappear from the world. How to choose between life and death? Life is better than death, life is better than death.