Line Taiwan "Soul Ferry" Liu Dewen: In 19 years, more than two hundred veterans were buried back to the mainland

Jimu Journalist Xiao Mingyuan Liu Yerui Hu Dikai

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Liu Dewen, the head of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province, was affectionately called "Soul Ferry" by many netizens. Since 2003, he has often traveled on both sides of the strait, and sent the veteran ashes to Taiwan to return to the hometown of the mainland to complete the desire of the veterans.

On the morning of August 7, Judu, a journalist of Jimu, said that he had sent more than 200 veterans to "go home" in the past 20 years. Affected by the epidemic, many veterans in their hometown have been found in his house and failed to return to the mainland. He hoped to do this all the time.

Jimu Journalist connecting Taiwan "Soul Ferry Man" Liu Dewen

I sent 200 veterans home in the past 20 years

Liu Dewen was born in Gaoshu Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, and is 55 years old this year. Liu Dewen introduced that in 1996, when he first moved into the community of residence, many of the neighbors were older veterans, and the youngest were in their 70s. Liu Dewen often took care of the veterans, cleaned it for him, and began to understand their stories in the conversation. Many veterans left their hometown at the age of ten. They failed to go home to take care of their parents for a lifetime. They couldn't fulfill their filial piety and missed their hometown. They hope that even if the ashes can return to their hometown after death.

In 1998, Liu Dewen was elected as the long -term Li Li, who was elected as the Harmony of Zuoying District, Kaohsiung City. Similar to the director of the neighborhood committee of the mainland, he also walked closer to the veterans.

In April 2003, a veteran took two bottles of sorghum wine to find Liu Dewen. He hoped that after his death, Liu Dewen could bring his ashes back to his hometown and buried in front of his parents to help him complete his filial piety to his parents. Essence This gave Liu Dewen a great touch. About half a year later, the veteran died. In order to fulfill the wish of the veteran, Liu Dewen took a plane from Taiwan to Hong Kong, then transferred to Changsha, Hunan, and finally took a bus to the countryside of Changde, Hunan. Back to the hometown of mainland China.

Since then, Liu Dewen has begun to send the ashes to the Taiwanese veterans home, and he resigned from the bank.

At that time, Liu Dewen was in his thirties, and the child at home was very young. "The wife did not support me at the beginning. Until one time she sent the veteran, I took her to go, and her attitude appeared. Change."

Liu Dewen said that Taiwan's ashes are relatively heavy, with nearly ten kilograms on his body. Each time he sent the veteran, he put the ashes into the backpack, carried the bag on his chest, and walked with both hands. That time he carried his wife with a ashes together, and walked 5 kilometers after getting off the car before going to the hotel that met the living conditions.

Liu Dewen sent Taiwanese veteran ashes to return to the mainland

Liu Dewen said: "When the hotel was sent home from the hotel, the elder brother of the veteran saw us, and immediately knelt down to the ashes with the ashes on the back of my chest, greeted his brother, and finally rounded the veteran. Parents' wishes. This picture moved us very much, and my family also supported me from this. "

To find the ashes into the tomb and break the ribs

In the past 20 years, Liu Dewen has sent more than 200 veterans home. He has traveled to many provinces in the mainland. Only Tibet, Gansu and Qinghai have not been there. The most impressive to send the veteran home is the ashes who sent a veteran to Yunnan.

At that time, Liu Defeng took the veteran's ashes and took the car into the mountains of Yunnan. When he went to the village entrance, the veteran's son rushed over and said to him, "Open the ashes and let me see. I was said to be an orphan since I was a child. My father. "

Liu Dewen said that in recent years, many family members of the mainland hope to find the ashes of their family members. The family only knows that the veterans are in Taiwan and do not know where they are. People worship and clean.

A few years ago, in order to find the ashes of a Hunan veteran, Liu Deve fell into a tomb and broke two ribs.

Liu Dewen sent Taiwanese veteran ashes to return to the mainland

Later, with the development of mobile phone technology, every time Liu Dewen walked into a messy post, he would use his mobile phone to shoot the tombstone. After returning, he gave it to his wife and daughter to help him organize it into a data file.More than 6,000 veterans.Among them, he also helped many families who had relatives on the mainland and Taiwan, but failed to connect to the line, and contacted them.For so many years to send the veterans home, the family has also supported Liu Dewen more and more. His parents funded him nearly 500,000 yuan to help him. His wife and daughter also participated in it. More and more Taiwanese veterans were brought back to the mainland.Hometown.

Liu Dewen said that in 2019, he found his hometown for many veterans, but affected by the epidemic, these veterans have not been able to return to their hometown in the mainland in his home.For other conditions, he will continue to help these veterans return to his hometown to fulfill the desire of more veterans.

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