In recent years, the Veterans Affairs Bureau of Lianshui County, Jiangsu Province has always included the work of "finding relatives for martyrs" as an important agenda of the overall work, and has continuously promoted the continuous development of the county's "search for relatives for martyrs". Lianshui County effectively uses the "Jiangsu Province Service Platform for Martyrs to Find Relatives", connects the national "Martyrs Search for Relatives Public Service Platform", and sets up family search service windows in service centers (stations) for veterans at all levels, accepts applications from martyrs' relatives to find relatives, and responds to the voices and expectations of martyrs' relatives in a timely manner. Unearth valuable clues to find relatives. Up to now, it has helped more than 50 relatives of martyrs to find their long-lost relatives, and has been widely praised and praised by the relatives of martyrs and the majority of preferential care recipients.
On the first day of work after the Spring Festival in 2024, the staff of Lianshui County received a call from a 92-year-old martyr's relative, and the old man said excitedly in ** that she had a sister named Shen Jinyu, who was only 13 years old when she joined the army, and in 1955 the old man learned that her sister had died somewhere in Liaoning Province. Now, nearly 70 years later, I still don't know where my sister's burial place is. The only wish of the old man in his old age is to find his sister's burial place and take her back to his hometown for burial.
With a sense of reverence, responsibility and mission for the revolutionary martyrs, the person in charge of the Military Support and Praise Section of the Lianshui County Veterans Affairs Bureau quickly reported the relevant situation to the leaders of the bureau, and the working group for the martyrs immediately started its work. Through visits and information, I finally found a letter dated June 10, 1981 from the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xinmin County, Liaoning Province, in the county archives. Although the names of the martyrs registered in the two documents were "Shen Jinyu" and "Shen Jinyu" respectively and their genders were inconsistent, the working group for the search for the relatives of the martyrs immediately sent a letter to the veterans' affairs department of Xinmin City, Liaoning Province, asking them to help further confirm and verify the relevant information of the martyr Shen Jinyu and find the burial place of the martyr. However, the results were disappointing, and the search process was at an impasse for a while. The comrades of the martyrs' family search working group did not give up the search because of this, they did not stop, once again searched the original files, and went to the party history office department to verify the historical background and the number of the campaign unit, through analysis and comparison of relevant information, and finally confirmed that due to the long time, the name and gender of the martyr Shen Jinyu were registered incorrectly at the same time, and "Shen Jinyu" and "Shen Jinyu" were indeed the same person, thus restoring the original face of the matter.
At present, the Liaoning Xinmin City Veterans Affairs Bureau has completed the change of the information of the martyr Shen Jinyu, and engraved the name of the martyr Shen Jinyu on the wall of martyr names in Xinmin City, and the remains of the martyr Shen Jinyu are stored in the Xinmin City Martyrs Cemetery.
From 1955 to the present, nearly 70 years have passed, with the close cooperation and joint efforts of the veterans' affairs departments of Lianshui County and Xinmin City, the relatives of martyr Shen Jinyu finally cleared the fog and obtained accurate information about martyr Shen Jinyu, which ushered in a happy ending for the martyr's family search work.
In the next step, the Lianshui County Veterans Affairs Bureau will actively participate in the special action of "Respecting Rong Jianghuai Heroes and Staying Forever" organized by the Huai'an Veterans Affairs Bureau to find relatives for martyrs, and further strengthen communication and coordination with newspapers, radio, television and other news in the process of finding relatives for martyrs. Let the spirit of heroes and martyrs shine more brightly in the new era and new journey.
*: Veterans Affairs Bureau of Lianshui County, Jiangsu Province.
Author: Pu Jiawei Ling Xin.