Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE HEROES OF THE PEOPLE!

September 30, 1949

[Epitaph on the Monument to the Heroes of the People drafted by Comrade Mao Tsetung.]


Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past three years!

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who laid down their lives in the people's war of liberation and the people's revolution in the past thirty years!

Eternal glory to the heroes of the people who from 1840 laid down their lives in the many struggles against domestic and foreign enemies and for national independence and the freedom and well-being of the people!



Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung