An old photo

Turning over the textbooks, a tragic situation in which the original bustling South Railway Station was bombarded by Japan, a two- or three-year-old child sitting under the collapsed bridge, crying helplessly. In front of the children, there are a lot of charred ruins, all the ground are fragments of missiles, and the children are scarred...

This is the real scene taken by reporters when the Japanese invaders bombed Shanghai South Railway Station on August 28, 1937. When I saw this photo, I couldn’t help but raise a few question marks in my head. Why did this child cry? Where is his parents? What happened at the time? Why is he sitting in the ruins? It turned out that this child and his parents, brothers, and sisters were going to travel outside. Just about to board the train, they heard the sound of aircraft bombing from a distance. The rest were shouting for help. When they heard the sound, they immediately ran back, the plane roared, and then the gunfire continued, and the people around them fled and confused. The child didn't realize what was happening, but only instinctively grabbed her mother's hand. Finally, their family was washed away. Mom and Dad called their children, a missile shot down and pressed against them...

He looked at everything in front of him, only crying helplessly, without his father and mother, he became an orphan, without a home, he could only live on the street in the street, became a small cockroach...

The Japanese invaders did not just ruin a station, they also ruined many happy homes! How many more people will be on the streets like children in photos? Come on! Study for the rise of China!

Fourth grade: Liu Jiuchuan