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Food for thought...

China's New Rebels, NYTimes.
Ma Jian, The Guardian.
Video of the Tank Man, Daily Kos.
Graphic pictures from Telegraph.co.uk, The People's Forum.

A lot of of young people in China my age, who were either born after the event or too young to remember, don't actually know much more about it or care a lot less than they should. Knowing that, I will call my parents tomorrow, and ask them to talk to me. Uncomfortable things are not easy to talk over, and even easier to forget.

I am twenty years old, and so is the Tiananmen Square massacre that occurred on June 4th, 1989. Here's to remembering.