the Chen Dynasty

When I was cleaning the house the other day, I turned to an album that I hadn't used for years. I was surprised to find a photo in which I was wearing an old cotton military coat, with two twisted braids and my high school badge pinned to my chest. At the bottom of the photo, there is a time stamp: 198 1 winter.

I picked up the photo and looked at it for a long time.

Because of the poor conditions at home, I didn't buy cotton-padded clothes like my classmates I'm wearing my father's old military coat. It doesn't matter whether it looks good or not, in order to keep warm. But the girls are wearing men's old military coats, which is a bit conspicuous.

Many years later, my classmates said it was fashionable at that time.

My coat comes from my aunt's big cousin. She joined the army in 1976 and was in the division hospital of the 39th Army. Compared with her own house in Wafangdian, it's closer to my house on holiday. And after the farm where our family is located, there is a farm of their troops all the way to the west. She can come to my house in the military vehicle given to her by their troops and pass by all the time. My father is her only uncle.

One winter, she came to my house and said that she was going to study in a military school. She took a semi-old military coat to her father, which was given to her by my uncle. She also brought me a brand-new green military satchel.

That semi-old military coat was first worn by my father at work. He is inferior to his section chief. His section chief is a little older than him, wearing the new military coat of the local garrison, walking on the road of the farm, or eating in the canteen. Everyone is envious when they see it. You know, in the past, only one demoted deputy field chief came back from the front line to resist US aggression and aid Korea, and he still wore a military coat in winter. As for me, I went to high school and lived on campus. My father gave me that old army coat.

Tell me how happy I am to see that brand-new military satchel. I have brought many kinds of handbags and bags of several colors today, and I don't remember how excited I am. However, that military satchel looks nothing special today, but it is a military satchel, green and brand-new, and the big cousin is not willing to use it herself! She is still using her old one! That was in the 1970s. Being a soldier has always been the ambition of many people! At that time, there was no such thing as high imitation, which could be used in the army. This is brand-new, whether it is self-esteem or vanity. In today's words, it was an "explosion"!

It was my schoolbag in junior high school at first. It's four miles from my village to the middle school on the farm. Except in rainy days, I can take meals without going home to eat. At other times, I have to walk four miles on that dirt road in the country every day, and that schoolbag has been following me, rain or shine, no matter winter or summer.

When I was in high school, I attended an ordinary high school. I am more than forty miles away from home, and I need to take a long-distance bus through the road called "Old Railway" in the east of our farm. The green armband has faded a little, but every Saturday I put the books and books in my schoolbag in another bag and put them in the dormitory. I will carry this faded armband on my back and squeeze into the coach to go home. On Sunday afternoon, I will walk more than five miles with my backpack on my back, and wait for the bus to go back to school under the roadside stop sign, but at this time, my armband is a bit heavy, and it is filled with noodles cooked by my mother.

Later, I went to normal college to study, and I still took this faded military uniform with me. During the winter vacation, I borrowed anna karenine and The Silent Don from the library.

In my memory, there were more people carrying military satchels later, because there were more shops selling imitation military products. There is still a big gap between the color and quality of cloth and the military products issued by the real army. And in my heart, just because it is an authentic military uniform, I have always felt proud. In those years, I stubbornly believed that bags of this kind and that kind would become outdated with the passage of time. How can an authentic military uniform be out of date?

An era always has an era background. When my peers and I are thriving, adults ask boys what to do when they grow up. When the child answered "When the People's Liberation Army", the adults were delighted to think that the child was promising. Girls on the farm will get married when they grow up. I heard that the girl found a young man in the army, and everyone would say that this is really good. Soldiers always give people a real sense of security, a sense of security in all aspects.

I have always admired soldiers. I really like the feeling of wearing military uniform.

In the autumn of 20 19, I went to the west, and I was lucky enough to wear a new authentic military uniform and take a photo. I found that compared with the military coat of 198 1 year, the fabric of today's military cotton-padded jacket is denser, more wind-resistant and warmer, the design of dark green camouflage military cotton-padded jacket from collar to sleeve is more reasonable and compact, and the practicability of military backpack is more up to date.

Today is August 1st Army Day, the first day to enter the fragrance of August. I sincerely miss that I didn't become a soldier, but in the past years, I used authentic military uniforms, worn-out old military coats and painted military kettles. For my part, I am very grateful for bringing these things to my uncle, a veteran of our family. He is over 90 years old and can't take care of himself in bed. When he is sober, he still likes military caps. I told my eldest cousin, who retired from the army, that she was still very excited to hear the sound of a bugle in the courtyard of an old cadre's home, which she had heard every day since she was a child! Compared with the new military uniform, she misses the old military uniform and the old military coat! She said, well, it is closely related to her hard and lush years! She said that the feelings of soldiers have never faded in her heart!

Salute! Soldiers who fought for national independence and people's liberation!

Salute! Today, for the sake of peace, soldiers who are still sticking to the motherland in all directions!