During a 44-day stretch beginning on August 23, 1958, China pounded Kinmen with more than 379,000 bombs. And up until 1978, more than half a million alternate-day leaflet bombs were launched at the island (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays), leaving scars of war visible all over the island.
其中民國四十七年「八二三炮戰」如暴雨般，四十四天內在金門落下四十七萬多顆砲彈，加上之後持續至民國六十七年才停止的五十餘萬枚「單打雙不打」宣傳彈，讓金門處處可見戰爭遺痕。