June 8th, Dandong and War Museum

June 8th: Dandong and the War Museum.

We walked along the river and went out into the river across the border with North Korea on the old Japanese bridge that Americans had bombed during the Korean War. We visited the Korean War Museum. Then, we took a train overnight to Bei'An.

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	Statue in the square outside our hotel.	Statue at the Yalu River in Dandong.	Dandong.	Bridge across the Yalu River in Dandong.


	Dandong.	Dandong.	Dandong.	Dandong.


	Dandong.	Arthur by a marker representing the border between North Korea and China. Arthur is standing on the southern (North Korean) side of the border.	A restaurant in North Korea, across the river from Dandong.	Dandong.


	The family in North Korea.	North Koreans.	Dandong.	Observing North Korea.


	Arthur and Eric on the North Korean side of the Chinese/North Korean border on the Yalu River.	Dandong.	Dandong.	Dandong.


	Heroic statues at the Korean War Museum.	Heroic statues at the Korean War Museum.	Heroic statues at the Korean War Museum.	Heroic statues at the Korean War Museum.


	Dandong in Beijing.	This display was one of the very few emotionally moving displays in the Korean War museum.	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.


	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.


	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum.	Korean War Museum. The curator came out to see me when I gave him some materials from the Korean War Museum in Springfield, Illinois.


	Mural depicting the essence of the Korean War in the museum.	The war mural.	The war mural, very much like the cyclorama at Gettysburgh.	A famous photograph in China to portray the official narrative of the Korean War: an elderly Korean woman embraces a Chinese soldier.


	War museum in Dandong.	Officially, the name of the Chinese Korean War Museum is, “Commemorative Museum of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.”	A statue of Mao stands near the Dandong train station.	Near the Dandong train station.


	Sebastian tries a new fruit in the Dandong train station.	This food has an English label, but it says the name of the snack is “Sample Text.”	Waiting for our train in the Dandong station.	Dandong television tower.


	Eric and Jeri on the train.	View from the train as we departed Dandong and started north through Liaoning Province toward Shenyang.	Southern Liaoning Province from the window of the train.	We went through mountains and hills in Liaoning Province.


	Countryside in Liaoning Province.	House in Liaoning Province.	House in Liaoning Province.	House in Liaoning Province.


	The train stopped with a sudden jerk and a hard breaking. I had the feeling that something bad had happened. Indeed, a 7-year-old child had been struck and killed by the train. This was in a little village, and these people came out to stand near the train.	After waiting for the train crew and villagers to clear the track, we began to continue our way. This woman (in the lower right) was running through the village to come to the scene. I wonder if it was the child’s mother or a relative or neighbor.	I think these were some people who helped out after the accident. I did not see the relatives crying over the body of the child, but these persons would have perhaps witnessed the accident and helped out after the child was struck by the train.	This monument was near the tracks near the village where the child was killed. Incidently, late at night, after departing Heilongjiang but before getting near Beian, another person was on the track, but this was an attempted suicide. The engineer was able to stop the train and avoid killing the suicidal man, even though he jumped in front of the train twice.

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