My Flag My Life

In the middle of World War II, the British army and the Italian army were fighting fiercely on the African battlefield and the war was at a stalemate. Cooke, a platoon leader in the British army unit who had just arrived at the front line, was ordered to guard a ruined field depot with 30 men. When he received the order, he was very reluctant, the field warehouse has been scrapped, there is no material, and there is no cost of guarding. But there is no way, soldiers have to obey orders, he was extremely reluctant to bring 30 people to this abandoned warehouse, this place is a strategic rear, relatively safe compared to the first line.

One day, the communications officer reported that the division chief of staff would come here to inspect, Cooke was shocked, such a ruined warehouse, how the chief of staff will come over to inspect it? But other soldiers will be in private discussion: "this time with Cook chatter light, his father is the division commander, he came here, must be the division commander to consider his safety so arranged, the chief of staff to come to inspect, I guess also the division commander's arrangements, or perhaps also bring a large pile of supplies it!" The more the soldiers said this, the more despondent Cook's heart became, he wanted to be a warrior to prove his bravery.

The chief of staff arrived as expected, really brought a large batch of supplies, and went through every empty warehouse personally. He saw Cook's resentment and, on his way out, gathered all the men for a 20-minute lecture: "Dear soldiers, a soldier is not necessarily brave if he fights on the front line; in the war years, as long as you are in this land of war you are fighting, you must be ready to sacrifice and die for your country at any time... ...We have arranged for you to guard this place, it must be the need for combat, your obligation is to obey here, not to let the enemy take this warehouse away!" The Chief of Staff's admonition made Cooke and all the soldiers' blood boil; they had never felt such drumming. The chief of staff handed a red flag to Cooke solemnly and said to him, "This red flag is your army flag, it is also your life, the division commander asked me to give it to you personally, remember, you must watch over the warehouse and protect the flag!" During the war years, a flag is the life of a unit, with the flag, it means that the unit has been established, and also began to have a life, Cooke became the first commander of this unit.

However, something unfortunate happened when a defeated Italian howitzer battalion stumbled upon the warehouse and over 300 men immediately gathered fire and attacked it. Although the soldiers put up stubborn resistance, they were outnumbered and the warehouse fell. The commander of the howitzer battalion did not believe that the ruined warehouse was empty and subjected Cooke, who had been blown unconscious during the battle, and his eight surviving soldiers to inhuman torture and torment to force them to reveal the secrets of the warehouse, but these men did not know what the warehouse contained. On a somber night, the eight fighters shouted, "Down with fascism!" and chose to end their lives. Cook was in great grief, and that night, instead of approving the proposal of the 8 fighters, he chose to live. 8 fighters called him a coward and a coward. However, the words of the chief of staff, which he had deliberately explained on his way out, were always churning in Cook's mind: "Be sure to save this flag, and remember, this flag is immensely important!"

The howitzer battalion commander found this place particularly secluded and simply cut off contact with his superiors, taking the battalion to live in peace here, while Cooke was asked to plunder the latrines, clean up, and heat hot water for the battalion to bathe. Fascist soldiers often took it out on Cook, moving to punch and kick ...... in front of this inhuman torture, Cook frequently thought of death, but thinking of the flag, he dismissed the idea. But he completely lost contact with his superiors, this military flag does not know another effective, the main nature of where in the end, he asked countless times in his mind, "Chief of Staff, where are you."

A year later, the howitzer battalion was discovered by Italian internment troops, the battalion commander was shot for fighting passively, the howitzer battalion was put back into action, and Cooke was shot in both legs in his escape. Fortunately, he did not die, but there was no medical dressing. Finally, the tenacious man cut off his necrotic legs with a dagger and lived strong in this warehouse, where he kept the flag intact, believing that one day the troops would come for him. But not a year later, Cooke finished his life journey in pain and hunger, and regretfully left this world.

In 1942, there was nothing else to do, the Italian dictator Mussolini proud of the final struggle to redeem the defeat of the war, the African battlefield began a more gruesome battle. One day, warehouse came two generals, with many soldiers, fire to find the warehouse survivors, but they only found a pile of white bones on a fallen iron door plate, and in the already decaying clothes searched for a document, the upper name read: "Lieutenant Cook." One of the generals nearly lost his footing, but he fought back tears and asked everyone to pack the pile of white bones. Just as the group put Cook's bones away, they noticed four words carved with a dagger on the iron door panel under the clothes: "The Gate of Life." The general immediately ordered people to investigate this door carefully, the soldiers then found a red flag in a crevice of the iron door plate: "Commander, the red flag was found, your son saved this flag ......"

Cooke died, but he did not know the secret in this army flag until his death. He did not know that this military flag is made of two kinds of drawings finely sewn, dismantled the red flag, turned over the distribution of this warehouse underground weapons depot, the general with soldiers spent a month finding all the weapons everything, and these weapons are enough to equip the British army three divisions, to seize the final victory of the war has made a strange feat ......