Inscription for the Officers and Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the Compatriots Who Died[1]

(July 7, 1938)

Fight to the very end in the War of Resistance, let the noble spirit endure forever.

[1] This is the elegiac inscription written by Mao Zedong for the memorial meeting for the officers and soldiers killed in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the compatriots who died, and for the foundation-laying ceremony of the Monument to the Officers and Soldiers Killed in the War of Resistance Against Japan, held in Yan'an on July 7.