Taiwan’s Independence/National Day
Taiwan celebrates its own version of Independence Day, National Day, every October 10th without fail — for now at least. Maybe I shouldn’t say “Taiwan’s Independnce Day” as it really is “National Day of Republic of China”. But that’s not the topic of the day. People would literally be at each other’s throat for the correct wording of such event.
What I absolutely love about these events is that back in the days when I was little and lived in Taipei, the week of National Day would involve having tanks, amphibian vehicles, missile vehicle launchers, and trucks upon trucks of soldiers rolling past by my apartment window in the wee hours of the morning — to avoid the ever deadly Taipei rush hour traffic, I suppose.
As we all know, every boy’s wet dream is to manuver any of those vehicles, preferrably the one that can produce the loudest bang and the biggest explosion. So, it was knda cool back then, when I was a 6th grader. I would wake up 3 in the morning, put my arms on the window sills to support myself and try to keep my sleepy eyes opened, and watch those vehicles traveling in a straight line, a perfect formation.
And then I grew up and it seems that Taiwan hasn’t.
Now, I must be stupid, but are we in 21st century yet? Have we, as earthlings, matured or at least try to mature to a stage where we don’t need to kill each other using such elaborated weapons? If the answers to the two questions are a resounding “yes” then why is Taiwan still displaying weapons on its National Day?
Just exactly how much more barbaric can you be?
ARRRRRRRRR. Me got weapons. Me shoot you. HAR HAR HAR. Me shoot you with more weapons and missiles from a vast variety of vehicles than I can count with all the fingers on my two hands and two feet.
You would never catch any First World country rolling out its weapons on a national holiday.