Kuningtou, a place where Taiwan's fate hung in the balance, is just a flat, sandy beach; only a stone tablet today quietly marks the spot near Mt. Taiwu where major-generals Chi Hsing-wen, Chang Chieh-yu and Chao Chia-hsiang died on the eve of the August 23rd Bombardment; in Liao-luo Bay, where eight war reporters lost their lives, the waves roll and crash as they have always done.
古寧頭，一個扭轉台灣命運的地方，不過是一片平直的沙岸；太武山邊是吉星文、章傑與趙家驤三位少將，在八二三砲戰前夕殉難的地方，現在只有一個石碑安靜地立著；料羅灣，八位軍事記者的葬身之處，如今波濤依然洶湧。