This is the time...

Current political situation in Taiwan reminds me of the story in the text book of my elementary school days under Japanese occupation period.
It was in 1905 when Russo-Japanese War was proceeding into the most critical stage of war, a huge combined fleet of more than 30 Russian Navy ships marched toward Japan all the way from Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. While Russian Baltic fleet eventually came through Tsushima Island in between Japan and Korea, marching into Sea of Japan, Japanese Admiral of the Navy fleet, Togou Heihachirou (東鄉平八郎) on board of the flagship Mikasa, decided to hoist a Z-flag of morale mobilization with the declaration that “The Empire's fate depends on the result of this battle, let every man do his utmost duty." ("The fate of Imperial Japan hangs on this one battle; all hands will exert themselves and do their best.")

「皇国の興廃此の一戦に在り、各員一層奮励努力せよ」

Let’s paraphrase this sentence for Taiwan,

「臺灣之興衰，取決於明年初之總統、立委合併選舉。
熱愛臺灣的人們，務必努力奮鬥，求得勝利，
確保臺灣之主權，維護我們安和樂利的家園。」

願以此句，與大家共同勉力。


臺灣愛繁榮
總統愛選蔡英文
綠營立委愛過半


God bless Taiwan and the Taiwanese!

With best regards

CS Lou 5/3/2011