In the realm of foreign products, it has always been every leader’s dream to see domestic goods gradually take over the market. Under the military’s control, they were able to fully channel foreign investments and completely block all imports, so those dreams have truly come to pass.

If you still have Milo or Ovaltine at home, be sure to savor them and record their taste for the next generation. At home, my father would bring out a large oil lamp in the evening to light up the night. I fondly recall those fleeting echoes of childhood—the days when we paid an entrance fee to the small video theater at the street corner and felt pure delight.

Oh, that childhood which I believed would never return. Just like in the past, the mere thought of receiving a call from her home via the roadside phone would make my heart race and send chills down my fingers. And when her boyfriend arrived, I would think of sorrow, and the quickened heartbeat would gradually fade away.

The military might be able to restore the nation to a state reminiscent of childhood, but surely it cannot bring back the racing hearts and youthful exuberance of our early years, can it?