The Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery (Chinese: 五指山公墓將軍墓園) is the Republic of China's most prominent military cemetery. The cemetery is located on Wuchih Mountain (五指山) in Sijhih, Taipei County and borders Taipei City's Neihu District and Yangmingshan National Park. General Chiang Wei-kuo, the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, conceived and designed the cemetery. He was also buried there.
Other people buried there include the former ROC President Yen Chia-kan and up to thirteen military officers of general and admiral rank. The cemetery, which has 9,417 grave plots, is nearly full; further deceased military officials will need to be cremated and stored in part of the cemetery that houses the ashes of the deceased.
Late ROC Presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo are planned to be buried there in late 2005. Their memorials are under construction.
Because the military played an integral role in the governance of Taiwan for approximately fifty years, the restructuring and reinvigoration of the civil-military dialogue is of substantial regional importance.
Therefore, liberalism undermines the military’s conservative fundamentals and destabilizes the mandate for obedience critical to the survival and function of the armed forces and the state.
Military morale was so low, in fact, that the execution of regular peacetime mobilization drills resulted in circumstances where reserve soldiers disputed orders from their commanders.(Chieh-cheng Huang, 2) The need for this particular type of reform is therefore critical to the cultivation of military professionalism, combat efficiency, and stable civil-military relations.
The Cihhu Presidential Burial Place is under the jurisdiction of the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense and guarded by the Republic of China Military Police.
In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang, the widow of Chiang Ching-kuo, asked that both father and son be buried at WuchihMountainMilitaryCemetery in Sijhih, Taipei County.
Soong May-ling died in 2003 and was entombed at Ferncliff Cemetery in New York.
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