This kind of wartime song became a routine thing in the Li family. Over the course of the eight years 'fighting against the Japanese the country was decimated and the veterans of that war came to thoroughly despise the Japanese. However, the bitter civil war between the Nationalists and Communists that followed, with Chinese fighting Chinese, hurt them even deeper.
八年抗戰，國破家亡，老兵們固然恨透了日本人，但其後同樣慘酷、「中國人打中國人」的國共內戰，更傷透了這些老兵的心。