Quote of My Daughter(22) 女兒語錄(22）
In November 2004, several days before my daughter’s 12th birthday, the Epoch Times newspaper published the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”, detailing the historical crimes of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its evil nature. As a result, many Chinese people started publishing their announcements to quit the Communist Party and its related organizations.
2004年11月，在女兒12歲生日數日之前，大紀元網站發表了震撼雄文《九評共產黨》，詳述共產黨的歷史罪行和邪惡本質，並由此引發了海內外華人退出共產黨、共青團和少先隊的「三退」大潮。時至今日（2018年4月），三退總人數已超過3億零2百萬。
As the “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party” are very long and “heavy” commentaries articles, I never expected that my 12-year-old daughter would be interested in reading them.
However, to my surprise, she not only read all of the articles in full, but also discussed with me whether she also needed to publish a quit CCP declaration. I was again shocked by her enlightenment quality; and I happily said, “Yes. What do you want to say? I can type it for you.”
由於《九評共產黨》非常長，而且內容非常沉重嚴肅，完全是成人讀物，我從未指望12歲的女兒會有興趣把它看下來。誰曾想，她不但從頭到尾讀完了，還跟我討論，她是否也應該發個退隊聲明。
我再次被她的悟性所震撼。要知道，那時候三退剛剛開始，好多成年人還沒有悟到應該退出呢。我高興的說：「是，應該發個聲明。你想什麼說？我來幫你打字。」
So she started dictating the following to me for me to type it on the Quit CCP website at http://tuidang.epochtimes.com:
“I was bad luck enough to have joined that unfortunate Young Pioneers organization, but was good luck enough to have come overseas before I was dragged into that unfortunate Youth League. Now I solemnly declare my withdrawal from the Young Pioneers.”
於是她給我口述了如下三退聲明：
「我很倒霉，曾經入過那個倒霉的少先隊。但我又很幸運，在加入那個倒霉的共青團之前出了國。我現在嚴正聲明退出少先隊。」
However, when her declaration appeared at the Quit CCP website on December 13, 2004, it was cut down by the website editor into just one sentence:
“I solemnly declare my withdrawal from the Young Pioneers.”
I have to say that my daughter published her Quit CCP declaration 3 days before I published mine. Haven’t I said that she had very good enlightenment quality on big issues? Nobody told her. She just enlightened.
我一邊暗自好笑，一邊幫她打完了字，並發到大紀元的三退網站上。
2004年12月13日，她的聲明出現在三退網站，不過被編輯刪得只剩下最後一句話：「我嚴正聲明退出少先隊。」
我還想說，她這份三退聲明比我的退黨聲明早發了三天。我自己的退黨聲明，是2004年12月16日發表在大紀元網站的，鏈接如下：
曾錚：聲明退黨 做個明明白白的中國人
http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/4/12/16/n749521.htm
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Jennifer's daughter at Capitol Hill Lawn in Washington DC in July 2004, after a Falun Gong rally. 曾錚的女兒2004年7月在法輪功集會結束後攝於美國華盛頓國會山莊
