His photographs had been and will be published more than a thousand times. Every time we celebrate the Independence Day, the media will publish all these pictures again and again. Business enterprises, large-format picture printers, photo treatment companies will repeatedly claim credits as well as reaping cash of the pictures they use but the original artist remains uncredited.
For a senior person like Wong Swee Lin, he doesn't mind this. Because all the sweat, tears and blood that he had shed during his service were partly for the love of his work, and greatly for the love of his nation. It was him and his fellow comrades, whether still alive or had passed awy, who documented the birth of 1Malaysia. And they did all the work not merely for money for the pay was too low, but the risk ... so huge.
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