Chen's most moving memory connected with his father came on the day he went off do his military service: "I took off from Taipei Train Station to do my training in Huwei Township, down in Yunlin County. When I got to Huwei, I found that my father had taken another train down there so that after I changed clothes he could take the stuff I wore on the trip back home to Taipei.
提到父親令他最感動的一件事，是他要去當兵服役時，他說：「那天，我在台北車站坐專車到雲林虎尾受訓，車到虎尾時，我發現父親竟搭另一班火車趕來，只為了將我換下的衣服拿回家。