{"id":5556,"date":"2009-05-31T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T09:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=5556"},"modified":"2009-05-31T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T09:23:07","slug":"wwii_veterans_received_a_warm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/wwii_veterans_received_a_warm.php","title":{"rendered":"WWII veterans return from Burma after 67 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/xiandaikuaibaojpg-6272.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/xiandaikuaibaojpg-6272.php','popup','width=500,height=759,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/xiandaikuaibaojpg-thumb-160x242-6272.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"242\" alt=\"xiandaikuaibaojpg.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"CaptionStyle\" style=\"width: 160px;\"><em>Modern Express<\/em><br >May 31, 2009<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nine former soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in Burma who chose to stay in Burma after the Second World War embarked on a tour to China yesterday, their first visit home for 67 years, today&#8217;s <em>Modern Express<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the government of the border city Ruili organized a ceremony to welcome the homecoming of the WWII veterans\uff0c among whom the youngest is now over eighty years old.<\/p>\n<p>In 1942, at the request of Britain, China&#8217;s then ally, the Nationalist government dispatched a force of over 100,000 to Burma to join the British army. Among the 61,000 of the expeditionary force who died in Burma, most lost their lives to diseases, starvation or were eaten by wild animals when they retreated to the tropical jungles and tried to cross what is referred to as &#8220;Wild Man Mountain&#8221; (\u91ce\u4eba\u5c71) by Chinese history books.<\/p>\n<p>A TV dramatization of this little known part of Chinese history entitled <em>My Chief and My Regiment <\/em> was aired on the Mainland Chinese TV channels earlier this year and received high viewership ratings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lshead\">Links and Sources<\/div>\n<div class=\"lstext\">\n<ul>\n<li><em>Modern Express<\/em> (Chinese): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuaibao.net\/html\/2009-05\/31\/content_70868713.htm\">Nine veterans of the Chinese Expeditionary Force returned home after 67 years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine former soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who have chose to stay in Burma after the Second World War start their home visit yesterday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/wwii_veterans_received_a_warm.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[1427,206,3816,3817,1962],"class_list":["post-5556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-of-the-day","tag-burma","tag-history","tag-mordern-express","tag-veteran","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}