Grandpa's Application for Party Membership

My grandfather was born in 1930 in a family of three brothers. He was the second oldest. He joined the Eighth Route Army and was an instructor of a certain company at that time. He later died in battle. His name can be found on the monument at the county martyrs cemetery. In 1942, due to the burning, killing, looting, and severe drought and plague by the Japanese and puppet troops, Linqu no man's land was created. ", People fled one after another in order to survive. Grandpa's father led his second grandfather and him to join the team of "crossing the Guandong". Not long after arriving in the Northeast, grandpa's father and third grandfather passed away one after another, leaving the helpless grandfather alone. Later, grandpa returned home with several fellow villagers wading through mountains and rivers. He was thirteen years old that year...