“In Taiwan We Stand; at the World We Look; about the Universe We Are Concerned” is Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum's ideal. If we want to stand in Taiwan , the most important thing is to understand and care about persons, places, and events surrounding our growing up. The reason we chose “Honorary Soldiers” as our topic lied on: most “Honorary Soldiers” belonged to the groups of the weak. Unless having a contact with “Honorary Soldiers”, people do not understand their historical background, thinking and life habits. We hope to make people more understand “Honorary Soldiers” this special family through this project research.

Taking part in the contest sponsored by “Taiwan School Cyberfair” benefited us greatly: parts of Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum's “Learning Areas” showed up one after another as we made this project research.

When taking a look at Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum before, we only knew it had 5 curriculum rationales, 10 curriculum goals, 7 learning areas, and 10 core competences. But after joining this webpage contest, we found rationales, spirit, and goals of Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum all appeared in our research, that could never be experienced in class. What a wonderful and memorial experience of learning.

In the street stalls, “Honorary Soldiers” has another name: “Old Taros.” Most common people's impression of “Honorary Soldiers” is: old-aged external provincials with a heavy accent and a special family in which people live distinctively and most of them are unmarried or married with women much younger than themselves. However, how many people do understand the poignancy they had for leaving home, the hardships they suffered for earning a living after just coming to Taiwan, and the nostalgia they bore for leaving home for over 50 years? How did they settled down and took root on this land?

In order to solve these questions, we decided to take the forms of personal interviews to realize the real life of “Honorary Soldiers” instead of searching for data by internet or quoting coverage on newspapers and magazines. The objects that we interviewed included “Honorary Soldiers,” their dependents and the next generation. With our project, we would like to take the role of Ambassador to introduce this first-handed interview to everyone, hoping to let more people realize “Honorary Soldiers”, this special family, and make people living on this treasure island more harmoniously because of understanding.

In this project research, We had a lot of new experiences: listen to “Honorary Soldiers” grandfathers talking about different personal stories and experiences of joining the army, fighting in a battle, reuniting with the old wives after 50 years' separation, dwelling beside the tombs or the dead, earning a living by picking up junk, undergoing nostalgia for leaving home for almost 50 years. These various experiences made a great impact on us: War was cruel, bring humans nothing but pains. We did no hope to meet any war forever!

To cultivate our self-independent ability, all teachers would not join the interviews, forcing us to initiate the interviews with flushing and stammering, but end up with ease and volubility. Our team members all felt ourselves growing up a lot suddenly during this period. That's so-called “Experience is the mother of wisdom.”