Statistics show that between 1949 and 1958 Kinmen suffered more than 40,000 artillery attacks, more than any other place in the world for a similar length of time.
根據統計，由民國卅八年到四十七年，金門一共遭到四萬多發砲擊，是全世界最短時間內遭受砲擊次數最多的地方。