I've always wondered if he survived to know what an icon he became or if they just executed him right after this.

I didn't know that today was the anniversary. Just last night, my wife and I went to a bowling alley to do music trivia. I remember that a few years back I had seen on the wall a newspaper article in which the bowling alley was featured. But the newspaper feature was from the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre and there were all of these interviews with people in our community about it on the side of the page. It was really interesting reading all of these people's opinions right at the time of the event.

Alas, when I went to show my wife the wall hanging, it had finally been replaced by something newer. I always search for things that shed light on history simply because they've been neglected. It's like being a lay archeologist, but it also just feels tragic when people finally get around to cleaning up.