As for the heritage preservation in Taiwan, it is concerned with the great mass fervor of community renaissance and local cultural industry in the early 90th and is always based on the collective memory interpellating(召喚) identity in order to promote the value of preservation. This research is begun with Niu-Ma-Tou Cultural Association (NMTCA)–the first non-governmental organization that solicited for funds voluntarily to preserve Da-Yang Oil Depot (DYOD) as Vietnam War heritage in Taichung. It detects that the constructing Vietnam War memorial value of DYOD claimed by NMTCA differs from the local inhabitants’ thoughts during the urgent steps of saving DYOD exempting from dismantling. This research is based on the collective memory theory and then probes into the local inhabitants’ and NMTCA’s narratives of DYOD, each of them regards it as a symbol of their collective memory but it is diverse from each other.
