Boys drawn to a vehicle like a magnet - it seems to be a universal thing. |
Gene's China-Burma-India service patch. |
It's early summer somewhere in southwest China. Katy, our scholarly consultant, says "It looks southern from the trees of course." We'll see trees. |
"The writing is a slogan about supporting the buildup of the army. The same technique of using the sides of buildings as billboards for public service announcements has continued into the present. Always a preference for a matching pair of 4 or 5 characters -- a couplet if you will, because that was so favored for inscriptions of all kinds. e.g. on the two sides of a doorway at holidays, or on the two sides of a wall behind the desk of a scholarly mandarin."
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