Chapter 881: Endless Island

dear madam:

I have seen a report from the Department of Defense commissioned by the Chief of Staff of the State of Massachusetts, and I know that you are the mother of five brothers who died honorably on the battlefield. I know no words will be able to escape your grief at such a huge loss, but I can't help it. I would like to express to you the condolences of my center and the gratitude to you of the country for which they died. I implore God to heal your grief for the loss of your beloved son, and to leave in your heart the precious memory of your heroes, and your well-deserved sacred pride in your service to liberty. Your Most Loyal: Abraham Lincoln

Before the invention of the typewriter, people wrote letters by hand, and Abraham Lincoln's letter to his five brothers and mother was also handwritten.

How could the aloof American president talk to a housewife in such a humble tone?

This mother lost five sons. Originally, she could spend her old age peacefully surrounded by many descendants, but because of the war, she may have become a loner, and her sons went to serve the country. Why can't the president give her an explanation?

Never ending is a very severe curse. Swiss banks embezzled the money of Jews who died after World War II.

Goblins are also stealing the money of extinct pure-blood families, wizards have always had trouble giving birth, and families as prosperous as the Black family are now cut off from the male line.

Descendants are very important, and it is precisely in order to have enough heirs to be prepared that ancient China implemented the system of monogamy and multiple concubines.

It is precisely because there are too many descendants that there is an internal strife like "Kowloon seizes the heir".

She was fifty years old, and there was little hope of bearing him any more children in human terms, but the subject didn't need to be discussed anymore, he didn't care if he had children.

Everything is up to fate, and besides, they still have the godson Draco Malfoy, and they can let him bury them both after they die.

Now she had to deal with this weird typewriter first.

This typewriter originally belonged to a printing factory in Singapore. It looks very complicated, and it is completely different from the typewriter on the desk in the office. It is densely covered with traditional Chinese.

The current Chinese technology is a product of the pinyin script, which has almost integrated into modern life, so it may be misleading-Chinese uses movable type printing as easily as English.

The most common letter in English is E. Which word is the most common in an article of about 2,000 words in Chinese?

The non-repetitive nature of Chinese characters makes it very difficult to learn, let alone those rare characters.

Before the invention of computers, as long as Chinese characters were printed by handwriting and mimeograph, only professional printing houses and wealthy schools would use Chinese typewriters.

The city of Singapore has been a trade center for a long time. Commodities such as agarwood, coral, ivory, and spices are transported to China from there, just like the Venice of the East.

In addition to the main island, there are many scattered islands, among which Sentosa Island is one of them.

In the past, Sentosa also had a Malaysian name, which literally means "death coming from behind", and the Chinese called it the island of the aftermath. It is said that in the middle of the 19th century, there was a plague here, which killed most of the people on the island, and a small number of people fled to the main island of Singapore to survive.

Back then, Endless Island was an important military base to defend Singapore's main island. After the British took over from the Portuguese, they built many fortifications and forts on the island.

After Japan occupied Singapore during World War II, it used Endless Island as a prisoner-of-war camp, where both Australian and British prisoners were held.

They also executed at least 40,000 Chinese who resisted here. These Chinese were tied together by three or five people, and after being shot, they threw their bodies into the sea.

However, they were lucky. The Japanese did not have a tradition of preferential treatment of prisoners. The Australian and British prisoners of war were starved to the bone, and no one would go to this place.

When Singapore became independent in 1965, British troops were still stationed on the island. Singapore asked to take back the island of the last resort, and they are going to build an oil refinery or other factories here.

But after the British army withdrew, Singapore changed its mind again. They turned Endless Island into a sea paradise, attracting tourists from all over the world to travel, sightseeing and vacation.

Sometimes I have to admire the ignorance and fearlessness of tourists. The horror of that island is not inferior to Poveglia Island, but the superstitious feng shui rich people go to that island for vacation, especially the tourists from the north. The feeling of basking in the sun on vacation is certainly more comfortable than blowing northwest wind in the north.

There are three ways to be unfilial and have no descendants. Pomona doesn't know why the local Chinese named the island "Peaceless".

The local people will celebrate the Thaipusam Festival on the island. On this day, Hinduism will celebrate the birthday of Murugan, the youngest son of Shiva and the Snow Mountain Goddess. On this day, he received a spear from the Snow Mountain Goddess and finally wiped out the Devil Soorapadman.

Unlike other Indian festivals with a joyful atmosphere, Thaipusam is a festival of confession, atonement, dedication and gratitude for devout Hindus.

The picturesque island with the peacocks in full bloom is weird. It has been an unrecognized island since the 1970s. No, it is Sentosa Island, which is a "gathering place for the super rich", and only the super elite can afford it.

A lunatic does not feel that he is insane. He has his own logic. Jack the Ripper wants to understand the anatomy of women, but in the 19th century, women's bodies were not easy to come by, and there were no books on female anatomy on the market. , Some people even think that there are seven small chambers in a woman's womb.

In order to find out the truth, he killed those prostitutes. It is useless for them to live. They might as well die and dissect their bodies to make some contributions to society.

Anyone who accepts his logic will go crazy along with him. He doesn't feel how confusing black and white he is, so unreasonable.

The aftermath of the insanity of the Vietnam battlefield has spread to the Western world. No one wants to participate in this unjust war, which is different from the anti-government war.

What's more, the sons of rich people don't participate in the war at all. Why should ordinary people participate in this war that they don't want to participate in?

Lyndon Baines Johnson, who concocted the TET counteroffensive plan, took over as president and proposed legislation on human rights, tax cuts, anti-poverty, and resource protection; proposed a plan to build a "Great Society".

Is this what he calls "the great society"?

She lives in an incomprehensible era, and she can disguise evil as justice with just a few photos, talking about human rights while doing nothing about human affairs.

Although what happened in the jungle is far away from the United States of America, conscientious war reporters reported what happened in Vietnam in the United States.

Although the democratic system turns the people into slaves of public opinion, not all public opinion is controlled by the government.

There are no so-called secrets, only hidden truths.

The picturesque Switzerland used to be the most rampant area for witch hunting. The island of Sentosa, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city and the crowds, used to be a place similar to a concentration camp. The island is crowded.

No wonder the mayor of Venice has such great ambitions to develop Poveglia Island into a tourist resort. It turns out that there are successful precedents. The cunning of the Venetian merchants is indeed well-deserved.