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September 3, 1954 — the first shells on Kinmen
Seventy-two years ago yesterday the First Taiwan Strait Crisis began. Kinmen is a county you can fly to for lunch. It was also, for an afternoon, the center of the Cold War.
4 min read · Sep 4
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August 23, 1958 — the week they still call 823
Five days before this letter, in 1958, the guns opened on Kinmen. The odd-even shelling that followed is why a museum on the island still treats earplugs as a joke with a date on it.
4 min read · Aug 28