The medal recorded my father's legendary life: from herding sheep to founding a university.

Legend has it that the commemorative medallion awarded by my father to my mother from herding sheep to founding a university will be put together with several medals of my father and passed down from generation to generation as a red heirloom of my family. Chen Huaibin introduced that his father Chen Guojun, 19 16, was born in Chen Jiachuan, Zhongzhuang Administrative Village, Tugao Township, Huining County, Gansu Province. /kloc-0 joined the first front army of the Chinese red army of workers and peasants in July, 1936, and/kloc-0 joined China in August, 1937. After the founding of New China, Chen Guojun successively served as chief of staff and deputy commander in Huaiyin Military Division, Taizhou Military Division, Yancheng Military Division and Jiaxing Military Division. 1955 was awarded the rank of colonel, and 196 1 year was promoted to the rank of senior colonel. 1In May, 966, he served as deputy commander of Suzhou Military Division in Jiangsu Province. Chen Guojun went to Korea to participate in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and died on March 2, 1972 at the age of 57. When my father was alive, he warned us many times not to compare our status and achievements with others. Chen Huaibin, the eldest son of Chen Guojun, a 74-year-old old Red Army, said that his father's growth from a shepherd boy to a founding university was legendary. Chen Huaibin introduced that his father was born as a bitter child, about 1932. His father's family starved to death because of the famine. He has a good sixth uncle and several sons, and his life is very difficult. But in order to raise Chen Guojun, sixth uncle gave his son to others. "Chen Guojun herded sheep for a local landlord. One day, Chen Guojun lost several sheep of the landlord and was afraid to go home. Just as the Red Army passed through Chen Jiachuan, Chen Guojun joined the Red Army. Later, I learned that he joined the Second Division of the Red Army, and the first battle after enlistment was the Battle of Mountain Castle. 1945, my father Chen Guojun married my mother Mao Xiuying and gave birth to five of us. Chen Huaibin said that his father is very strict with his brothers and sisters and often says to his children and grandchildren, "My life is a blank sheet of paper. Don't smear me on this white paper! Chen Guojun, a soldier who participated in the Battle of Pingxingguan, was gloriously wounded and insisted on adowa. 1936,1/kloc-0 In June, 2006, Chen Guojun took part in the battle of Mountain Castle (Mountain Castle in Huanxian County, Gansu Province). The Battle of Mountain Castle forced the * * * Army to stop attacking the Shaanxi-Gansu Revolutionary Base (also known as the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet Area), which was the last big battle of the Long March. Chen Huaibin introduced that his father had told them that attacking the mountain castle was his first time to participate in the battle, and he was not afraid at that time. Although he has no experience, but listening to the gunshots, he already knows that in the front left front, the enemy's gunshots are far away, the firepower is weak, and there are no heavy weapons. It is suggested that the monitor charge to the left. The monitor accepted his suggestion, charged and occupied the enemy's position. After the war, the company commander praised you, saying that you are a good shepherd and you are very clever in fighting. You can use your head. You will be a good commander in the future. 1September, 937, Chen Guojun participated in the Pingxingguan Campaign. At this time, Chen Guojun was already the monitor of the machine gun class of the 685th Regiment 1 5 Division of the Eighth Route Army15. As a vanguard assault battalion, the 685th Regiment 1 Battalion mainly focuses on the parking lot of Laoyemiao Xitan. Chen Guojun led his comrades in the machine gun squad to take up the battle calmly and fired bullets at the Japanese aggressors' chest, and all the Japanese troops on more than a dozen trucks were annihilated. His palm and leg were injured, but he still kept fighting until the Japanese army was wiped out. Chen Huaibin said: When my father was alive, the gunshot wound on his leg was always there, and we were all proud of him. Reporter's text/map