Monument of sacrifice

Malaysian Armed Forces Chinese Veterans Association (northern) members saluting the monument to the Malayan volunteers during a memorial ceremony. – Photos: ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

If you are headed to Kek Lok Si Temple or Penang Hill railway station, you will not miss a large bronze-coloured monument of an army supply truck near the roundabout in Ayer Itam Road.

The monument depicts three men struggling to get the truck going along an arduous rocky trail. It memorialises a time when China was not a superpower yet and Malayans of old had to help the country.