When reading Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", I always have a passionate impulse, which is a desire to break out of the cocoon. I like this title very much because I deeply feel the name. Shocked by the meaning it contains.
I remember that on the title page of this book, Hemingway once quoted a poem fragment from the seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet John Donne:
No one is an island. Become one
Everyone is part of that vast continent
If the waves wash away a land, Europe will be a little less
If a cape, if The same goes for the estates of your friends or your own being washed away
The death of any one is a loss to me
For I am included in the human race< /p>
So don’t ask for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for you
In this poem, I didn’t touch it until many years later This extraordinary broadness and depth of tunnel contains extraordinary vigilance towards the human condition of existence.
When I opened the news page this morning and browsed the news on the Internet, what shocked me was that on the 72nd anniversary of September 18, 2004, a Japanese trading company actually organized a sex buying group in Zhuhai. Five-star hotels are buying prostitutes on a large scale. This level of badness is really outrageous.
Although China has never explicitly designated September 18th as its national humiliation day, it is a conventional concept; Japan began its invasion on September 18th 73 years ago. China, this is an unforgettable national humiliation.
I strongly agree with the view that every country has its own day of humiliation, and many countries also have statutory "National Humiliation Days." Let the people feel that this is by no means a simple time mark, but a profoundly meaningful and effective carrier that strengthens the national spirit and warns the national awareness of danger.
Since 1996, the Russians have designated June 22, the anniversary of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, as a "Day of Remembrance and Mourning". On that day, the country observed a minute of silence, flags were flown at half-mast, and cultural programs were stopped across the country.
Every July 27th in the Jewish calendar is Israel’s “Disaster and Heroic” Holocaust Memorial Day. On this day, sirens sound for two minutes, flags are flown at half-mast, pedestrians stand in silence, vehicles are stopped, and all entertainment activities are suspended. All stop.
There are too many such examples. South Korea commemorates its heroes on June 6th every year as Loyalty Day; after the war, France commemorates the victims on November 11th every year as Armistice Day.
The United States will always remember the day when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. From the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem to the Holocaust Memorial in Poland, people in many countries mourned the dead on the "Day of National Humiliation". We cannot allow it to be forgotten. Forgetting history is tantamount to betrayal.
Such a day will not be abandoned by time. It is a mark of shame. This kind of insult to the nation has caused many people who have personally experienced it to have their personalities despised and their bodies destroyed. This kind of damage is very heavy. , even for a short period of time, it is bloody.
We will remember the Normandy landing as an unusual day, and we will also remember the anti-Fascist victory as an exciting day, and we will never forget the Nanjing Massacre as a heartbreaking day.
I really like the sentence in "For Whom the Bell Tolls": All people are a whole, and the misfortune of others is your misfortune. So don't ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you.
We live on the same earth, have the same love, the same hate, the same breath, the same tears, we must work hard to create a better Home, for you, for me, for him, for everyone!
In memory of those who died heroically in the great Anti-Japanese War!
China needs a day of national humiliation! China has not yet had a day of national humiliation!