Ma Jian, male, 14 years old, is a junior 3 student of Xuankou Middle School in Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
After the earthquake, six students in Ma Jian's class failed to leave the classroom. In the afternoon rescue, Ma Jian and his classmates found Xiang Xiaolian buried in the ruins. They rescued her several times together, but all failed. At night, he braved the heavy rain, quietly returned to school, curled up and got into the ruins, dug out and carried out the bricks with his hands, went in and out again, and climbed over and over again. His hands were worn out and his legs and feet gradually stopped working, but he didn't give up. After about four or five hours, Ma Jian, whose hands were covered with blood, finally dug Xiang Xiaolian out of the ruins. Then he began to look for other survivors. With the faint light of the lighter, he saw two students being pinned down by the cement board, but they could not be rescued without large tools. He immediately rushed to the student canteen, which had not yet collapsed, to bring them water and help the two students to persevere.
02 Ma Xiaofeng
Ma Xiaofeng, female, aged 17, is a senior two student of Dong Qi Middle School in Mianzhu City, Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
Ma Xiaofeng woke up from a coma after the earthquake, checked his body quickly with his only movable left hand, and immediately put a book on his head when he found that the back of his head was bleeding. After these self-rescues, she heard the voice of her classmate Yin calling for help from a wall on the right side of the ruins, and immediately called Yin: "Don't cry, don't waste your energy." Later, Ma Xiaofeng put his right hand and leg out of the crack to help Yan. But because the wall was broken, it failed. Ma Xiaofeng tried to shout for help, but he didn't hear a response. She touched half a leg of the desk and kept knocking on the cement board on her head, but there was still no response. With her hands and half a leg, she struggled out of the road in the ruins and moved forward bit by bit, still unable to find the exit. During this period, she heard the voices of her classmates Cao and Ge Kehe. Ma Xiaofeng reminds everyone from time to time that we should encourage each other, stick to it and stay awake. After nearly 75 hours of waiting, their cry for help was heard by rescuers and four people were rescued one after another.
03 Wang Bo
Wang Bo, male, 16 years old, is a senior one student of Dong Qi Middle School in Mianzhu City, Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
During the earthquake, Wang Bo, who was in the classroom, quickly calmed down, stepped over and unplugged the power supply on the wall, and quickly opened the deformed and stuck door to let the students leave the classroom quickly. He didn't run out until the last student in the classroom left. Subsequently, Wang Bo devoted himself to the rescue. In the school experimental building, he heard the cry for help, kept moving and digging with his hands, and successfully rescued a girl. There was another cry for help. He dug along the gap in the ruins, opened a small hole that could only accommodate him, climbed in, removed the stones that were pressed on his classmate one by one, and rescued the classmate. He entered the ruins again and found another female classmate. He quickly put his foot against the crumbling stone, blocked his body above his classmate, took off his coat and wrapped her head, saving his classmate to a safe place. On the edge of the collapsed teaching building, he found a boy crushed by the ruins, leaving only his head and hands outside. Wang Bo shouted to the people nearby while moving stones, and this classmate was saved again. His palm was scratched, his arm was scratched and his shoes were worn by steel bars, but Wang Bo still insisted on rescuing his classmates and never backed down.
Wang Liang
Wang Liang, male, 17 years old, is a senior two student in Beichuan Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
When the earthquake happened, Wang Liang and two other students were crushed between the walkways on the second and third floors by collapsed concrete slabs. He found that there was light coming in from the left front, so he broke free from the cement board with his classmates and successfully escaped from the gap. Later, Wang Liang began to look for and help other students. After rescuing a classmate, he found that two girls were pinned down by cement slabs. Without tools, they planed with their bare hands and found two people to rescue their classmates together. He climbed into the ruins again and found three trapped female students. He immediately called rescuers and doctors to rescue them. Wang Liang was badly scratched on his back when he rescued his classmates, and he was bleeding all the time. His right ankle was also injured in the aftershock. Throughout the afternoon and evening after the earthquake, Wang Liang limped to help save people, and * * * found and helped many students escape successfully.
05 Deng Qingqing
Deng, female, 14 years old, is a first-year student in Huaying Town Middle School, shifang city, Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
When Deng was rescued by armed police officers and soldiers, she was still reading with a flashlight in the ruins. She said, "It's dark down there. I'm scared. I am cold and hungry, and I can only relax my fear by reading books! " The frank and powerful words touched everyone present. The officers and men of the armed police picked her up and said, good boy, as long as you can come out alive, you are better than anything.
06 Dragon, Wang Jiaming
Shen Long, male, age 17, a senior three student in Beichuan Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province; Wang Jiaming, male, 18 years old, is a senior three student in Beichuan Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
In the face of the sudden earthquake, Shen Long and Wang Jiaming, who are taking a biology class, help the teacher to organize the students to evacuate quickly. Later, they organized students to carry out rescue, digging by hand and knocking with wooden sticks, and quickly rescued four students from the ruins. In order to help the teachers and students in the collapsed teaching building, they organized their classmates to open two roads in just one hour, one for stretchers and the other for rescuers to enter. Thanks to the efforts of students such as Wang Jiaming and Shen Long, more than 20 teachers and students were rescued. They also braved the aftershocks to send water to the trapped students and help the injured teachers to a safe place. At eight o'clock in the evening, the students spontaneously grouped. Wang Jiaming was the leader of the third group, and participated in transporting the wounded, the remains of the victims, oxygen bottles and small machinery. The next morning, I helped the rescue troops lift tents and distribute food to the affected people. When they moved to Mianyang, Shen Long and Wang Jiaming served as temporary class teachers to organize the students to reach their destinations safely, because all the teachers were still providing disaster relief.
07 Liu Gang
Liu Gang, male, aged 17, is a senior two student in Beichuan Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
When the earthquake happened, Liu Gang was having a history class, and many students began to run into the corridor. Liu Gang called on everyone not to panic, while quickly covering his head with his hand and hiding under the desk, but he was stunned by the falling cement blocks upstairs. After waking up, his first thought was to make way for the students to leave quickly. He climbed to the exit of the classroom, smashed the cement block stuck here with his fist, and finally opened an exit. As the exit is very small, only one person can climb out at a time. A classmate didn't have the strength to climb out, so he pushed his classmate's body out in the passage, and another male classmate met him outside. The last classmate was pressed on his waist by a big brick. Liu Gang tried his best to move the bricks and climbed out of the passage with her. Hardly had they gone out when the building collapsed again, and the falling bricks hit where they left.
08 Xu Zhongzheng
Xu Zhongzheng, male, 9 years old, is a third-grade student of Xinjian Primary School in Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan.
After the earthquake, Xu Zhongzheng was squeezed into the gap between tables and chairs under the ruins and suffered minor injuries. He was talking to a friend when he vaguely heard Mr. Zou's voice under the ruins. She is counting "one, two, three" and asking everyone to call for help. The teacher's voice added courage to them. Xu Zhongzheng advised friends around him not to be afraid. It's so dark around, just like we are playing a game to see who is brave and not afraid of the dark. As time went on, he gradually felt hungry and thirsty. When he woke up from hunger, he chewed the hard table with his mouth and imagined it as instant noodles. He took the lead in singing the national anthem with his friends-"Get up, people who don't want to be slaves ..." Singing came from the ruins, and the anxious fire officers and soldiers rushed over and handed two bottles of mineral water from the hole. Xu Zhongzheng licked his thirsty lips while handing the water to his classmates. They were saved soon.
09 Yang Yujie
Yang Yujie, female, aged 12, is a sixth-grade student of Bailu Central School in Pengzhou, Chengdu, Sichuan.
Yang Yujie reacted quickly in the earthquake. Under the teacher's organization, the students quickly evacuated outside the building. Yang Yujie could have been the first to run downstairs, but suddenly she saw Miss Wang who rushed out of the classroom and ran back. She stopped at once and felt that she should share her worries for the teacher. At this time, a strong aftershock hit, and a sharp glass hit Mr. Wang. She jumped over and grabbed Mr. Wang and ran. When she approached the second floor, she, Miss Wang and several other students were thrown on the platform in the corner. Yang Yujie hurt her knee, and her classmate Min Xu fainted. Yang Yujie subconsciously looked up at the ceiling, with his fist has torn a crack. She hurried forward to carry Min Xu, who was much taller than her, ran outside the building with the help of her classmates, and then rushed upstairs to help the teacher reach the safe playground.
10 Liyang
Li Yang, 17 years old, male, a junior one student in Beichuan Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
On the afternoon of May 12, Li Yang waited for a performance in the auditorium of Beichuan County Committee. After the earthquake, he ran out with the crowd and went straight to school. Li Yang jumped on the ruins and shouted anxiously, "I'm Li Yang. I'm coming to save you. You have to hold on!" " "After intense search and rescue, Li Yang found Liao Bo trapped under the ceiling of the classroom. Li Yang carried it by hand, and the ceiling was too heavy to move. He encouraged Liao Bo to say: Be sure to hold on, my good brother. 13 in the morning, rescuers entered Beichuan. Li Yang immediately called rescuers and took the initiative to hold an infusion bottle to help medical staff give Liao Bo an intravenous drip under the rubble until Liao Bo was successfully rescued. On the same day, Li Yang and other students rescued four students with their bare hands.
1 1 Li Jianbo
Li Jianbo, male, 14 years old, is a junior one student in Beichuan National Middle School, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
During the earthquake, Li Jianbo's seat was near the classroom door. He could have rushed out of the classroom first, but he retreated to the door and kept pushing his classmates out of the classroom. When he looked back and saw that his deskmate was still lying in the classroom with blood all over his face, he immediately picked up his classmates and ran to the playground. A few seconds later, the corridor of the teaching building collapsed. Subsequently, Li Jianbo organized 12 senior one boys to form a stretcher team, and sent the injured students to the medical point one by one to help with disinfection and dressing. After the last classmate's wound was bandaged, regardless of the danger of aftershocks, he and the male teacher carried food and set up a tent on the school playground.
The next day, it rained heavily. Li Jianbo and some teachers and students went to Wenjingzi, two miles away, to fetch water and firewood, so that more than 700 students had hot porridge. In the afternoon, he spontaneously organized his classmates to save people in the ruins, rescued his son with a mother, and rescued the mother of a classmate with a dozen classmates.
12 Yanglin
Lynn Yang, female, 14 years old, is a senior two student in Juyuan Middle School, Dujiangyan City, Sichuan Province.
After the collapse of the teaching building, Lynn Yang was buried in a narrow space. Using this space, Lynn Yang successfully pushed two students to safety, but he was hit by a falling stone in the aftershock and could not move. When she woke up, she saw a light in the ruins. By the light, she carefully removed the masonry, bravely and difficultly climbed out, and then fainted on the ruins. Lynn Yang's pelvis, chin, skull and feet were crushed, which often caused unbearable paroxysmal pain. But when people walked into her ward and saw her lying in bed, chatting with her grandmother next to her, there was no pain or panic on her face.
13 on Yang Song
Yang Song Shang, male, aged 17, is a senior one student in Xuankou Middle School, Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
After the earthquake, I quickly hid in the corner on the Yang Song in the last row of the classroom. When the teaching building sank, the floor tilted at a large angle, and he slipped from one end of the classroom to the other. At the moment, Yang Song didn't choose to escape to save people! In desperation, he rushed to the deepest place where his classmates were buried and began to rescue. He smashed the bricks with his hands and removed the brick columns, tables and chairs that were pressed on his classmates. The first classmate was successfully rescued and his hand was worn out. Yang Song is still trying to plan, shouting: "Save girls and seriously injured classmates first". Hearing a faint groan from the corner, he immediately rushed over, shouting the names of his classmates, encouraging her and digging with all his strength. During this period, he worked hard with his teachers and classmates to save eight classmates.
14 He Yajun
He Yajun, female, aged 1 1, is a fifth-grade student in Qushan Primary School, Beichuan County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
After the earthquake, He Yajun and two female students encouraged each other under the rubble and must hold on. After being buried 19 hours, it was found by rescuers. A rescuer tied the mineral water bottle with a long rope, slowly loosened the rope and handed it to He Yajun, and told her, "Hold on, son, I'm sure my uncle can save you!" Because the runner-up and another classmate Niu Yu happened to be back to back, and Niu Yu was buried deep under the runner-up 1 meter. She could only put her arm back and pour mineral water desperately. "Finished, Niu Yu!" "Leaning back made her leg ache, but she kept feeding water to her classmates. During the 50 hours she was rescued, she fed her classmate 120 times. He Yajun and Niu Yu were both rescued. He Yajun's right leg skin was necrotic and seriously infected due to long-term extrusion and friction. When sent to Mianyang, the medical staff suggested amputation. After consulting experts from the Third Military Medical University, it was decided why the runner-up had to perform decompression surgery on his leg to remove necrotic tissue. In the hospital, she took the initiative to ask for a blank sheet of paper and wrote two big words "Thank you! "She said, thank you for saving my uncle from the ruins.
15 He Cuiqing
He Cuiqing, female, 13 years old, is a junior one student of Muyu Middle School in Qingchuan County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province.
He Cuiqing was rescued after being buried in the ruins for three days. In the earthquake, she could have escaped safely because she usually has the habit of taking a lunch break and getting up early. When the earthquake happened, she had walked out of the dormitory and suddenly felt her feet shaking violently. "Earthquake", He Cuiqing ran out quickly. After a few steps, it suddenly occurred to her that there are 14 sisters in the dormitory taking a lunch break, so we must call them quickly! Without hesitation, He Cuiqing turned around and shouted: Earthquake! Earthquake! Go and call the students who are still taking a lunch break. Everyone got out of bed and ran out. But before they ran away, in a shaking, the student dormitory collapsed, and He Cuiqing and her roommates were crushed under the rubble. They encouraged each other, agreed to live a good life, and took turns calling for help to save their strength. Three days later, He Cuiqing was finally rescued. That night, she received emergency treatment. However, due to being buried for too long, the right calf has been necrotic and forced to amputate. He Cuiqing's spirit of "leaving hope to others and danger to himself" deeply touched all teachers and students.
16 Song Xue
Song Xue, female, 12, a fifth-grade student at Tumen Primary School in Mianzhu City, Deyang City, Sichuan Province.
When the May 12 earthquake came, Song Xue, a student cadre on duty, was checking his nap. She immediately shouted: "Earthquake, everybody run, run …" and ran out of the classroom quickly. Hearing the shouts, the students rushed out of the classroom and ran to the playground. Through the window, Song Xue saw two students still lying on the desk in the classroom. She shouted, "Zeng Yu, Han Jie, there is an earthquake. Come out, come out! " They didn't hear crying when they were asleep. Song Xue rushed into the classroom at once and woke up two students. They rushed out of the classroom and ran to the playground.
The teacher began to count the number of people and found that Song Xue was the only one in the class, so he immediately set up a search and rescue team to search among the ruins. The next morning, when rescuers found Song Xue's body only two steps away from the back door of the classroom, she still kept the posture of rushing to the door. At the last moment of his life, Song Xue gave his classmates the hope of life, but he left forever.
17 Jaco
Jaco, male, Tibetan, 18 years old, a senior three student in Lixian Middle School, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
After rushing out of the classroom, Jaco ran back, saw that all the students in the class had been safely evacuated, braved aftershocks, took the initiative to go to other classes to save people, helped a female teacher downstairs, and confirmed that there was no one in the teaching building before leaving. It began to rain soon after the earthquake. He ran home quickly and took out all his clothes for his classmates to wear. Then set up a tent on the playground with everyone. The students entered the tent, but he took several senior three boys to deal with the water at the top of the tent. In the evening, all the students were asleep, but he looked around and cleaned the water in the tent. During the day, he went to the school's temporary canteen to help find firewood, transport firewood, wash vegetables, wash dishes and fetch water, help maintain order during meals, and take the initiative to disinfect the school toilets and trash cans to ensure the health of teachers and students.
18 Zhang Qiang
Zhang Qiang, male, 16 years old, is a third-year student in Huaying Town Middle School, shifang city, Deyang City, Sichuan Province. In the third grade of elementary school, a car accident made him lose five fingers in his left hand, and his legs became shorter and shorter because of surgery, making him disabled.
Zhang Qiang's classroom is on the fourth floor. When he ran to the third floor, the earthquake had torn countless cracks in the teaching building, and bricks, cement bricks and floors began to collapse. He saw the flag-raising flagpole outside the building, jumped over the balcony on the third floor, grabbed the flagpole tightly and slipped safely to the ground. After escaping from danger, he immediately ran to the ruins to save people. Without tools, he can only use his hands. If he can't use his left hand, he will use his right hand. Digging out a classmate, he picked it up and ran to the playground. When the rescue team came, Zhang Qiang had rescued four students from the ruins. And his right hand was scratched with countless blood mouths, and his body was smashed black and blue ... The next morning, with the consent of his parents, Zhang Qiang signed up as a volunteer. Now, he is a volunteer in Chengdu, Deyang and Jintang.
19 Zhang Xingcheng
Zhang Xingcheng, male, 13 years old, is a sixth-grade student of Fengyi Primary School in Maoxian County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
After the earthquake, Zhang Xingcheng found his younger brother in the street and gave it to his relatives for care, and immediately joined the adults in earthquake relief. He and several classmates Qi Xin rescued a child in the ruins. But after the child was rescued, there was a little girl below. A classmate picked up the rescued child and sent it to the hospital. Zhang Xingcheng, together with other students, continued to clean the bricks around the buried girl by hand and rescued her from the ruins. Zhang Xingcheng showed great initiative in earthquake relief. Seeing someone putting up a tent, he will consciously come forward to help; When he hears that the old people need someone to take care of them, he will actively go there to help them do something within his power.
20 Geng Jie
Zhang, male, 8 years old, is a second-grade primary school student in Jiange County, Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province.
When the earthquake happened, Zhang suddenly saw a classmate in front of him walking towards a falling wall in the street not far from the school. While shouting "the fence is going to fall down, get out of the way quickly", he rushed up and pulled his classmates away. At this time, the wall more than two meters high collapsed, the classmates were buried, and Zhang's left foot was smashed into a comminuted fracture. While struggling to climb to the side of his buried classmates, he shouted for help: "Come on! A classmate was pressed under the wall. " The teacher who heard the news saw Zhang's left foot bleeding and immediately took him to the hospital. However, he pointed to the collapsed fence and said anxiously, "Come on, there is a little classmate trapped under the fence. Go and save him first. It's my fault for running slowly and not pushing him away. "
The front end of Zhang's left palm was cut off. But he said I was much luckier than my classmates who died in the earthquake. I will face life firmly.
2 1 Zhang Chunling
Zhang Chunling, female, 13 years old, is a sixth-grade student of Shikan Primary School in Pingwu County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.
An accident at the age of 3 left Zhang Chunling with severe facial disfigurement and amputation of his left hand, leaving only two pieces of his right hand and five fingers. After the earthquake, Zhang Chunling, who was running outside the school, heard the cry for help from his classmates behind him, immediately stopped and quickly returned to save people. "Little Sister" Du Yanmei was pinned down by the floor, and Zhang Chunling covered her classmate's head to stop bleeding because she was too weak to lift it. Another classmate is also calling for help. Zhang Chunling caught up with him and took his classmates to the wheat field. After that, she immediately ran to find a few people, * * * rescued Du Yanmei, and Zhang Chunling's shoulder was bruised by a falling stone, and blood flowed down his arm. On May 19, "Tent School" started, and Zhang Chunling and more than 460 students who had been suspended for 7 days walked into the classroom again.
22 Chen Hao
Chen Hao, male, 12 years old, is a sixth-grade student of experimental school in Shi Yu Town, Wenjiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan.
When the earthquake happened, Chen Hao and his classmates ran downstairs, crossed the flag-raising platform next to the building and reached safety. He turned around and saw a female classmate standing behind him in front of the high wall of the flag-raising platform that was about to collapse. Haohappy struggled to run over and pushed her away. The brick wall three or four meters high collapsed, and the female classmate was safe and sound, while his own back and legs were buried in the ruins. After being rescued, Chen Hao suffered from lower limb fractures, multiple fractures of the lumbar spine, several intact backs, lung contusion and pulmonary hemorrhage. At the beginning of cleaning the wound, he failed to use anesthetic in time, but he stood still and didn't cry. Chen Hao said, "I don't regret it. If I can save but not save, I will definitely feel ashamed. "
23 She Fu You.
She, male, 17 years old, is a senior two student in Xuankou Middle School, Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
When the earthquake happened on May 6, 2002, she was having a class in the classroom on the fifth floor. Suddenly, a beam above his head was broken, and the suddenly bounced desk hit him hard on the back, and he immediately fell into a coma. She Fu You was awakened by the cries of her classmates. He found himself trapped under a pile of bricks and concrete, unable to move. Teachers and students tried to remove bricks and concrete blocks and rescue him from the ruins.
Half an hour later, the roll call found that two students in the class were crushed under the rubble. The class teacher decided to organize rescue immediately. Despite her pain, Fu You did not hesitate to sign up. "I've already died once, what am I afraid of!" Hearing a girl's cry for help, he and several boys followed the sound and found that she and another male classmate were crushed in the same place by cement blocks. She and her classmates risked another collapse caused by aftershocks, desperately dug up the ruins and successfully rescued two students.
24 Zou Wenying
Zou, female, 12 years old, Tibetan, a fifth-grade student at Yingxiu Primary School in Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
When the earthquake happened, Zou, as the monitor and leader of the school Young Pioneers, always took the initiative to help the teacher organize the evacuation of students, but she consciously stayed at the end. By this time, Zou had run to the stairs on the second floor. In order to help other students, she never came back. When rescuers found Zou, she was still holding a classmate tightly. Zou's academic performance has always been the first in her grade. She also taught herself painting and music and loved sports. At the end of April, he represented the school in the Wenchuan Sports Meeting, and100m and 200m were both ranked. At her running speed, she can run out completely.
25 Lin Hao
Lin Hao, male, 9 years old, is a second-grade student of Yuzixi Primary School in Yingxiu Town, Wenchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
At the moment of the earthquake, Lin Hao was walking in the corridor of the teaching building. He was knocked to the ground by two students who fell from the table. As a monitor, he led his classmates to sing together and overcome their fears when the ruins were buried. After climbing out of the ruins, he found a fainted female classmate. He immediately took her classmates to a safe place. Then, he returned to the ruins again and rescued another injured classmate. In the process of rescuing his classmates, Lin Hao was smashed in the head and his arm was severely strained. After the doctor examined him, he refused the help of the staff of the rescue station, dressed himself, walked from Yingxiu town with his sister for more than 7 hours, and evacuated safely to Dujiangyan.
Experience:
When the earthquake strikes, how the safety of those young lives affects people's hearts; In the face of disaster, how the heroic stories of those children touched the people of China!
9 years old, 1 1 years old ... the age like a flower is the age that needs care. However, at present, these young children are strong and brave, interpreting the courage of life and shining with the light of human nature.
Let's remember the scenes after these disasters: after saving himself, Lin Hao, 9 and a half years old, walked out of the ruins with a coma classmate on his back, resolutely returned to the ruins, and once again carried another classmate buried in the ruins; Deng, a 14-year-old girl, was still reading with a flashlight in the ruins when she was rescued by armed police officers and soldiers. Lang Zheng, a 3-year-old boy, struggled to raise his right hand and saluted the officers and men of the armed police who rescued him. 1 1 year-old Zhang carried his 3-year-old sister and walked for more than 6 hours after the earthquake to reach the Mianyang resettlement site. ...
These scenes are touching, which makes people feel gratified in sadness and draw strength from comfort. They are children of the disaster area, children of China. In do or die, where disasters come, they are not overwhelmed by disasters and sorrows, but grow their strength in their hearts and stand up their tender shoulders. In the face of the broken homes and the departure of their loved ones, they struggled with disaster and death with strength, courage, optimism and kindness, and let people see the hope of death in the devastated land.
Since ancient times, heroes have produced teenagers. These little heroes of the new era embody the strong and unyielding character of the Chinese nation. When the catastrophe came, we were deeply admired and proud of their strong will.
Here, I would like to extend my highest respect to them as a young pioneer!