(Clearwisdom.net)
After several days of rain and cold, the weather took a turn for the better and became clear and sunny on the afternoon of May 13, 2002. Practitioners from the Columbia area happily gathered together on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia and gave a musical performance to celebrate this special day. Many Chinese people learned the truth about Falun Dafa and expressed their respect for the courage of the practitioners in China who are clarifying the truth and insisting on following their beliefs under such brutal persecution. This event also received support from many practitioners' family members who don't practice Falun Dafa. It also gave them a chance to gain a deeper understanding of practitioners and Falun Dafa.
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At around 6 p.m., practitioners began their performances. Many audience members asked the practitioners about the persecution of the Falun Dafa disciples in China and expressed their respect for the practitioners who have risked their lives to uphold the truth. Some people wanted to learn the exercises immediately, and one girl from Vietnam said that she had looked for Falun Dafa for a long time and was happy to have finally found it at our event.
A post-doctoral student of the physics department said that even though he didn't practice Falun Gong, he knew that the Jiang regime was lying. He said that if they didn't lie, then they wouldn't be able to survive.
During the break a mother and a son from China joined our celebration. The boy was about 7 or 8 years old and together with his mother they viewed our display boards carefully. When they saw Teacher's exercise demonstration pictures, the boy sat in front of the board and crossed his legs in the full lotus position. A practitioner talked to them and found out that they had practiced Falun Gong in China before 1999. But after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, they stopped practicing. The practitioner sincerely told them, "It was so unfair to you, but here you can practice freely." They happily found out the group practice schedule and left. Another girl from Qinghua University also said that she had practiced Falun Gong before and doing so had cured her headaches. But after the persecution, she was forced to stop practicing and her headaches returned.
From this event, we can see that as more and more evil is eradicated, more and more Chinese people are awakening and recognizing the truth. Before, even in America, they rarely dared to express their opinions in public even though they admitted that Falun Gong is good in private. The Jiang regime's lies are rapidly losing their hold over the people.
