My absurd experiences in North America over the years

In the following days, Li Fu did not make any further public appearances.

He didn't even go to the MGM headquarters office anymore; film progress was usually reported via email.

The Forum newspaper is already operating very well, and the television program production is progressing steadily. Hartenstein would never bother Li Fu with trivial matters.

Li Fu has been planning how to deal with the right-wing elements of the Japanese militia in his seaside villa for the past few days.

Taylor Swift is relatively busy, often participating in events or recording shows. If she is in the Los Angeles area, Li Fu will personally drive her there, and if she is in another city, he will drive her to the airport.

The relationship between the two cannot be simply described as being in love; it feels more like they miss each other terribly if they don't see each other for a day.

In their daily interactions, they didn't seem like a combination of a capitalist and a superstar, but more like an ordinary young couple. They didn't need assistants or nannies during the day, and security personnel were mostly stationed around the perimeter of the estate.

Taylor Swift was never pretentious in front of Li Fu; most of the time, she was more like an innocent and carefree girl next door. This was her image when she first met Li Fu.

Sometimes she would catch up on sleep in the car, sometimes she would practice her voice in the back seat, and sometimes she would suddenly be unable to resist giving him a kiss.

Under the golden Los Angeles sunshine, her smile always makes people briefly forget the troubles of the world.

Of course, Li Fu did not indulge in the pleasures of the land. He spent most of his time in the study of the villa. The study was quite spacious, with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the valley, where one could see the distant crest of the Pacific Ocean.

His desk was often covered with several sheets of printed paper, mostly containing his discarded documents, with only the most recent ones containing more formal content.

In order to counter, or rather, to crush, the whitewashing propaganda network of the Japanese right wing, he decided to first establish two foundations.

The first step was to establish the "Great Generation" Foundation, primarily to support Pacific War veterans in improving their lives, with a funding scale of approximately $5000 million. The foundation aimed to recruit like-minded individuals to establish veterans' service organizations to participate in its operation.

The specific projects cover three areas: medical assistance, housing repair, and psychological support, with priority given to densely populated areas on the West Coast, such as California, and later expanded to the entire United States.

The beneficiaries are veterans aged 75 and over and their families in need. The demands of this group are not complicated; they simply want to live a more stable life in their remaining years. However, the U.S. government seems to have forgotten about their existence.

In 1944, to encourage soldiers on the front lines to end the war in one fell swoop, President Roosevelt signed the Veterans Rights Act (GI Bill), which is considered the most successful investment in veterans in American history.

The bill stipulates that military personnel who retire normally can receive a one-time retirement payment (10% of their annual salary × years of service, up to a maximum of $3), and those who have served for 20 years can receive a lifetime pension.

In terms of housing loans, the government can provide VA (a housing loan benefit offered by the government for active duty military personnel, veterans and their families) loan guarantees, enabling zero-down-payment home purchases, which directly contributed to the post-war American Dream.

In addition, it includes education and training, employment and unemployment insurance, medical care and old age, etc., which can be described as a full range of benefits.

However, in reality, the VA loan guarantee application process is lengthy and difficult, with a large backlog of applications, and nearly 40% of applications are rejected outright on the first submission.

Even if approved, they often only receive the lowest level of compensation.

Healthcare benefits are also a significant issue, with veterans facing immense difficulties accessing medical care, experiencing wait times of up to 130 days at some specialist clinics. The quality of medical examinations outsourced by VA is questionable, sometimes even conducted in hotel rooms, and the contracting parties are poorly managed.

Some veterans were forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars out of their own pockets because the VA failed to approve specialist surgery.

The most outrageous thing is that veterans are actually trapped in "paper hell" and their appeals are often ignored. There have been cases where tens of thousands of appeals were wrongly closed due to administrative and computer errors in the VA.

Some lawmakers disregarded the lives of veterans and proposed bills that attempted to indirectly reduce veterans' benefits by lowering disability ratings.

Now, apart from the Marine Corps, it's hard to say that the systemic corruption and collapse of the military is unrelated to these factors; the military's outward strength but inner weakness has become a characteristic.

Li Fu essentially sympathized with the soldiers who fought bravely for the Pacific War. China and the United States had cooperated deeply in the Asian theater, and many American pilots sacrificed their lives in the Flying Tigers and the Hump airlift.

Establishing this foundation in the name of Forrest Capital can help veterans live a more dignified life in their later years.

Of course, he also had other motives.

By doing this, he can stand on the moral high ground in the war of words and condescendingly denounce the Japanese right-wing group.

Those veterans and their families may become vote banks for the Forrest family and the CP in the future, and even civilian groups such as veterans' associations may become vote banks.

He never does these things in his own name, but rather under the name of Forrest Capital.

The second one is an academic research grant.

In his proposal, he detailed specific research directions and funding standards, including research on World War II history, compilation of archives from the Pacific theater, population changes in East Asia during World War II, and research on the comfort women issue.

These four directions were all carefully considered and decided upon by Li Fu. The first one, World War II history research, has a broad scope, including not only the Pacific theater and Asia, but also Europe and North Africa. The signal it sends to the outside world is not aimed at the Japanese right wing.

The second item, the compilation of archives on the Pacific theater, is similar. The Pacific theater was the main battlefield in which the United States participated during World War II, and it was also the battlefield with the heaviest losses. It is equally credible on the surface.

The more files that are compiled, the more the brutality and savagery of daily life will be revealed.

Population changes in East Asia during World War II directly reveal the numerous atrocities committed by the Japanese army during the war, not to mention the issue of comfort women.

Li Fu's goal is the latter two items, but the preceding categories can very well conceal this.

To directly avoid those seeking fame and fortune, he also attached clear academic standards and funding criteria to each item, ensuring that funds flowed to scholars who were genuinely conducting research.

Instead of being used to support projects that use academic guise for political propaganda.

The fund is named the "World War II History Research Fund" with an annual budget of $500 million to $1000 million.

At present, investments of less than $1000 million are considered small for Li Fu, but they have already far exceeded the total investment of those Japanese conglomerates in the University of California system.

According to Thompson's detailed investigation, those Japanese companies only invest less than $100 million a year, but with this amount of money they can do a lot of things in secret, and even systematically persecute some Chinese students with firm beliefs.

Li Fu prepared an additional 20 million US dollars for this purpose.

Since those bastards want to use money to drive and build a public opinion front, then let those so-called Japanese groups see what it means to be crushed by American capital.