1996年10月8日出版的《北京广播电视报》所刊登的张荣第的短文《美国兵在前门杀人取乐》,勾起我历经半个世纪的回忆。我记得张荣第原是学矿业的,小我几岁,在北平西站工作过。二三百字的短文很难把这段历史说清楚。当时我正是事件发生地北平西火车站的站长,曾经始终参与处理这个惨案的善后事宜。抗日战争胜利后的1946年春,美国兵大批拥入华北一带。他们所到之处,皆以胜利者自居,他们乘坐的十轮大卡车、吉普车在北平的大街上横冲直撞,旁若无人。我曾经目睹一辆美军大卡车在前门大街上,把一辆人力车 Zhang Rongdi’s essay, “American soldiers murdering at the front door,” published in the Beijing Radio and Television Newspaper on October 8, 1996, aroused my memories of half a century. I remember Zhang Rongdian mining school, how old you are, worked in the North Station West. Essays Two hundred or three hundred essays difficult to put this history clearly. At that time, I was the head of the Peiping railway station where the incident took place and has always been involved in the aftermath of the tragedy. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan in the spring of 1946, a large number of U.S. troops embraced North China. Wherever they went, all the victors themselves, their ten-wheel truck, jeep rampage in Peking, as if no one else. I once saw a U.S. truck driving a rickshaw on the front door