Taipei Times
Date: Sep 02, 2016
By: Lo Tien-pin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Retired military personnel are planning to attend a protest in Taipei tomorrow not only because Taiwan
A coalition of military, civil servant groups and teachers’ unions yesterday demand respect from the government at a news conference in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-hui, Taipei Times
has not respected its military, but the military has suffered humiliation from Taiwanese for far too long, former National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Ting Yu-chou (丁渝洲) said on Tuesday.
Ting, who was speaking at the launch of former National Security Bureau official Lee Tien-tuo’s (李天鐸) new book, The Military Spirit under the Republic of China National Flag (青天白日下的軍魂), said the “military spirit” refers to the soul of the military and is the greatest pillar of spiritual support in times of war.
“Units that have no soul are unable to do their best in battle, and every nation around the world has policies in place to respect and protect their own military to preserve and cement their faith in their ideology, or soul,” Ting said.
“However, modern Taiwan has taken exactly the opposite approach and is constantly shaming its military, from ordering personnel to apologize for torturing a dog, the woman, surnamed Hung (洪), who slandered veterans, and the incident where four petty officers crawled into the house of Huang Wen-chung (黃文忠), the captain of the fishing ship that was accidentally hit by a navy missile,” he said. [FULL STORY]
