A 90-year-old war veteran in Miaoli County who had been a prisoner of war in French-occupied Vietnam learned to use a computer in his old age to record his story.
Tao Ju-lang (陶如朗) was 18 when his Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) unit in China was routed by communist forces during the Chinese Civil War.
The unit fled to the Vietnam border, but were only allowed entry if they laid down their weapons, Tao said, adding that he knew they would be made prisoners.
The men were held on Phu Quoc Island off southern Vietnam for four years, before being granted passage to Taiwan,
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