Twenty years ago today, the Chinese Communist Party sent armed troops against peaceful student protesters demanding corruption.  ”Liu Si” is the Chinese way of referring to the Tiananmen Incident, meaning six-four (i.e. June 6). That date will forever be engraved in my head. Gravely, liu si in Chinese numerology means flowing death – a calendrical omen of the streets overflowing with corpses, in striking similarity to the feeling of 911. Two days later, we will be celebrating D-Day, memorializing the dead from another kind of battle. Sometimes I wonder why we remember so many sad events in history.

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