It went on like that back and forth until they got to the middle of the river and his father's voice disappeared in the wind. Peng Yaling laments that over the course of 70 or 80 years each of these old men and women who had experienced war adopted a common survival strategy of forgetting what had pained them.
彭雅玲感慨，在長長的七、八十年歲月裡，每位經歷戰爭的長者，生存的共同法則便是遺忘，遺忘那些錐心至痛的往事。