Now 87 years of age, Chang Ming-sui says: "Many years later I saw what he had written in his diary back then. Though he had no news of me whatsoever, he guessed correctly that I wouldn't wait in the rear area with the other military families, and wouldn't go back to my parents 'home either.
「多年後，我翻閱他當時的日記，在音訊全無的當時，他就猜我不會跟著軍隊的眷屬在大後方乾等待，也不會回去依靠娘家。