100-Year-Old Veteran Remembers Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

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By Kris Ma/Rick Yi/Sam Hui/Ed Moon/Stas Butler

Born in 1924, Yao Yun-lung was stationed on the Taiwan-held Kinmen islands on August 23, 1958, the day China launched a massive months-long bombardment. Now 100 years old, he still clearly recalls what he experienced during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.