隔空傳遞：〈夜襲〉與《驚爆13天》

看過電影《驚爆13天》的人，對於無緣無故唱起戒嚴時代的軍歌〈夜襲〉的行為都要懷疑！

這是一種公開表達：我知道了 / 我收到了 / 我OK！

的訊號傳遞與承諾！！甚至是對特定人的某種「動員令」信號。

太怪異了！不得不如此懷疑！

To see is not always to believe.

Anyone who have seen the movie “Thirteen Days,” which describing the Cuban Missile Crisis, was impressed by the verification process between the White House and the Kremlin. 

In the movie, a national security official received a message from a senior journalist of the New York Times, saying that a contact reached him and he was from Nikita Khrushchev directly.  How did the White House verify it?

The White House first checked the overlap time of the contact and Khrushchev.  They worked in an identical national farm for two years.  Voila!  It is highly possible that the contact is from the top of the Kremlin.

So how did the White House send message back to Khrushchev, ensure he received it and do the later communications through the contact?  The White House asked Khrushchev to say certain words, ordinary enough but not arbitrarily.  The White House heard the specific words from an open remark of Khrushchev days later.  Voila!  The mission could proceed.

The movie played the communication, again later. 

The blockade began.  The then Chief of Naval Operations George Whelan Anderson Jr. ordered the navy vessel to fire warning shells over the merchant cargo in which carried munitions.

The US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stopped it and expressed to Admiral Anderson: “It is not a blockade.  This is language.  A new vocabulary, the likes of which the world has never seen!  This is President Kennedy communicating with Secretary Khrushchev!”

So how do you think the picture below:

A candidate emerges in an incredible speed that no one has experience before, his supporters is taking the share of half the population of Taiwan, and suddenly sang a military songs that the society is forgotten for four decades.

It could be a kind of communication between the candidate and “the one who is behind the Iron Curtain”, just like the movie “Thirteen Days” did. 

The candidate might reply that "I knew, I got it, I am OK with it."

What is more, the military song, which is to boost morale within soldiers, could be a latent mobilization instruction, especially to the audience that most of them were ex-military.

It is definitely a national security issue.