Dick Pastor:A Life Devoted to US-China Friendship

• 来源期刊: 友声：英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: OLYMPICS WRITER expectations FORGET FIGHTING soldi
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（3）
• 页码范围: 30-32
• 页数: 3页
• 分类号: D822.271

摘要

【正】Three old men happily got together again Chatting about what happened last sixty years There are still great expectations before them Don’t forget to meet again in Beijing in 2008! The above lines were written on a scroll by then 90-year-old famous Chinese writer and calligrapher Ma Shitu for Dick Pastor,an American ex-soldier fighting with China against Japanese aggression during the Second World War,who came to have a grand reunion with Ma and myself in Kunming in the fall of 2004.In the early hours of January 20 of 2008,while the Beijing Olympics are approaching,Dick Pastor passed away peacefully,but with a great regret,in New York at the age of almost 90.