Leader Hero

Leader Hero

“Every step people walked, every minute people spent, it would be history.” China is one of the countries which has a long history in the world. There were so many important events that had a deep influence on China. World War Ⅱ is an unforgettable event in China. Chinese people cannot forget what happened in China during the war. There were so many people that died in the war, and there were so many people that lost their houses and lost contact with their families. All of those were uncountable. Although my family lived in a small village, which was far away from the capital of China, the war still had a deep effect on my family. At the beginning, people hid from the enemies every minute during the war. People were afraid of the enemies and the war, and they did not want to be killed by any sinister enemies. They thought about a lot of ways how they could hide the enemies. I did not know how other people hid from the enemies, but what my grandmother told me was our family and our villagers made some covert places in the houses to hide them. They shoveled some places under the cooking stoves or under the floor. When the enemies came, all of the people went into the safe places. The way my family was able to hide from the enemies was one of the family members hid in the second floor and looked for any enemies came or not. Everyone had to do this job well because the enemies might kill the whole family if they found them, and every member changed in five hours. If anyone saw the enemies were coming, he/she came down quickly and told everyone to get into their special places. Every time the enemies got into our house and reached for someone or something, my family members’ hearts jumped so fast, and their bodies shook out of control. In addition, people had nothing to eat during the war. As the war began, our country ran out of food. Because of the war, there were no markets anywhere. Although people had money, they could not find a place where they could buy food. As the enemies came to our village, my family members started to suffer from hunger. They did not have enough food to eat; in fact, no one had any real food to eat. Therefore, they had to resort to the nature. My grandmother told me that she ate the tree bark and weeds from the fields. They also ate insects. I could not think about it. That was why my grandmother used to yell at me when I was young if I did not finish the food or wasted it. I did not care anything about that before my grandmother told me this story. Was my family living in the hell before? I could not imagine it. My grandmother said what she ate was not the food, she knew that, but no one had a choice. The final effect was that my grandfather was fighting against with the enemies during the war. As the time passed, my grandfather could not keep silent anymore. My grandmother told me that my grandfather was a man who had a strong sense of responsibility for my family and our village. He could not accept what the enemies had done to our village and our country. A night, my grandfather went out to look for some weapons that could protect our family if anyone wanted to hurt them. However, an enemy saw my grandfather right the way and he wanted to kill my grandfather. At that moment, what was in his mind was that he could not die because his son and his wife were waiting for him at home. He fought with that enemy, and finally my grandfather killed him. My grandfather took all of the weapons from that enemy and came back home. Later on, he built a small team of our village to help the villagers and fought with the enemies to protect our village.


Today, when we talk about the war, my family still has strong feelings from it. My family knew that the war had done something very bad for our country and my family, but they would not stop to think about it sometimes. Because of my grandmother, I could feel how the war really had a very deep influence on my family. I could feel what my family experienced during the war. My grandmother is ninety-seven years old now. Every time she talks about our family and my grandfather’s stories about the war, her eyes turns red like a baby is going to cry, but she has not cried even once. She has an unswerving face that looks like nothing can make her fall. I believe that her heart was running so fast at that time. I feel so proud of my grandfather, and I know the war hurt so many people including my family. I believe everything is now turning to the right way. I will walk my own steps, spend my own minutes to create my own history, so my family never has to experience this again.