Talk:Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989 by Dai Wang
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Uh, I don't understand totally why this is a proud moment in his life...
I understand he was in the middle of a carnage he did not want to happen, but why being proud of that tragedy?
He must be a nonhuman, or mentally disable. Brutal killer.
It is absolutely disgusting that he is proud to have contributed to killing unarmed civilians - people who were initially demonstrating peacefully to try to make a positive change for their country! He thinks he served his country but the world sees the atrocity and the evils of how the Chinese government responded to Tiananmen.
I personally do not agree with what your brother did on that day - but I do believe that, in the chaos of Tiananmen Square, his life was in danger, and he acted on feelings of patriotism and nationalism that were just as valid as my reaction would be if I saw a massive, semi-armed, and angry mob too large to be dealt with by normal security forces heading for, say, the White House. I believe that your brother shooting his own people - college students, especially, young men and women trying to enact a change - was wrong, but that does not change the fact that I believe your brother deserved to be proud. Not for the deaths he caused that way, but for protecting his country, his government, his way of life - and his friends - the only way he could have at the time. I doubt you'll ever read this, but if you do, know that I see your brother as the tragic hero he is - caught up in a terrible situation, and forced to act in the only way he knew how to in order to protect the sanctity of his country. Your brother was a hero. A misguided hero - in my opinion - but a hero, nonetheless. -Kaoru
I personally do not agree with what your brother did on that day - but I do believe that, in the chaos of Tiananmen Square, his life was in danger, and he acted on feelings of patriotism and nationalism that were just as valid as my reaction would be if I saw a massive, semi-armed, and angry mob too large to be dealt with by normal security forces heading for, say, the White House. I believe that your brother shooting his own people - college students, especially, young men and women trying to enact a change - was wrong, but that does not change the fact that I believe your brother deserved to be proud. Not for the deaths he caused that way, but for protecting his country, his government, his way of life - and his friends - the only way he could have at the time. I doubt you'll ever read this, but if you do, know that I see your brother as the tragic hero he is - caught up in a terrible situation, and forced to act in the only way he knew how to in order to protect the sanctity of his country. Your brother was a hero. A misguided hero - in my opinion - but a hero, nonetheless.
