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Chinh Nguyên

Because it was the trap, so they went away at midnight after they
knew that France troop would fire on the congregation.

The people, my youngest uncle and I escaped the death of
the cannon battle, and tired lying in the middle of the sweet
potatoes beds to hide French colonialists and no way to run, but
believe that France will not kill because we are people.

But lousy! The young farmers have always dressed in brown
or black for farming, but the French thought that the Viet Minh
guerrillas are hiding in the people, while no one knew a French
word to explain the color of their shirt. M-60mm has wiped
some of the youths with their distinctive clothing, including my
youngest uncle. There are not the Viet Minh guerrillas killed.

After the French colonial had withdrawal, the people
returned to the village, and try to forget everything of the
hardship life between life and death behind them. However, the
Viet Minh guerrillas follow the people also, every weekend
night to propaganda, and force people to study murder charges at
the church of Hoang Nguyen to the French. Those who lived in
Hoang Nguyen at my age could know Viet Cong use the people
as the human shield as the firearms against the enemy, and the
Viet Cong used the human shield again as the case of My Lai to
get the echo in the world.

The My Lai and Huang Nguyen myths are no different,
except that the French colonialists and the US military, but both
are foreign, and people do not know a word to explain to foreign
soldiers understand the situation. People have a mouth as dumb
in front of the guns of the Viet Cong are always behind the
terrorist back, and foreigners want to save themselves, so the
mournful death of the people has happened...!

If the people of Huang Nguyen is my age or older read this
passage, they will know and be sad for a bloody war in my poor

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