To go only 15 miles from home was considered going to a "strange land." Before and after 1949, many mainlanders who followed the military in its retreat hadn't even imagined in their dreams that in some corner of the globe there was this place Taiwan.
民國三十八年前後，隨政府軍事撤退來台灣的大陸籍人士，許多根本作夢都沒法想像到在地球一隅，竟有台灣這塊土地。