You may have seen that photo. I was there—or rather, I wasn’t.
There’s an old saying about the spinning doors of luck. For me, fortune meant that on the day of that brutal attack—when innocent students were killed simply for dreaming of a brighter future for China—I was not on duty. The day before, I had been. That simple twist of fate spared my life.
Some call it the guilt of survivors. Perhaps. But for me, it became a lifelong calling: to defend the remarkable idea of democracy against tyranny, and to shine light on the truth—no matter the cost.
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