War heroes should never be insulted
An online debate on war heroes has divided Chinese netizens. A recent post on SinaWeibo, a Twitter-like social network tool, mocked Qiu Shaoyun, a Chinese soldier who died in a fire during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953), as "roast meat". And some even said the story about Huang Jiguang taking a hail of bullets to protect his fellow soldiers is "false".
The spread of such slander on the Internet shows some people have little respect for the dead; worse, they defame heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country.
The tradition of respecting war heroes has a spiritual basis; it is equally important for a rising China and its people. Wars may not be something to be proud of, the world today is basically in peace compared with the past, but that doesn't mean the efforts and sacrifices of war heroes in the service of the country are any less important.
