Page 361 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

"We didn't have any more choice. We must start to make a
shelter now."

"O.K."

After Nguyen family members were in the large shelter
underground in his father bedroom, which was covered by all
furniture, and ground on its top, he looked at their faces that
stamped all of the worries thinking and exhaust on their eyes, while
the guns of all kinds were fighting, and cannon shells were broken
out in the air and exploded somewhere around the valley,
Sometimes it dropped near his family house of a distance after each
explosion were the sound of cried and screaming for the help of the
people that echoed in the air.

The whole night through Nguyen's family felt into afraid of dying
by the M-79 exploded at the front and back yards a few times. His
mother was dreadfully worried about his brother-in-law's family,
who had seven kids with My-Thanh, his wife. Their house was a short
distance at Northside from his parent house and because two
cannon shells 105 mm had exploded at this side.

Nguyen looked at his mom; she holds his young sisters and
brother in her arms. They cried and prayed at the same time. Trung-
Dung was quietly and shaking, He reduced at the sheltered corner
beside his father.

Viet-Minh continued to fire their rockets and canons 130 mm. To
Headquarters of a 45th infantry regiment, Artillery, Transportation,
and Ordnance battalion at 3 miles of Eastside. They attacked
Armored battalion at 4 miles of North-West, Military Gas, and
Ammunition Depots at 2 miles of West-South side.

Nguyen's father gave a worried look at Nguyen.

"Nguyen. Viet-Cong bombed your base so heavy." Nguyen's
father said.

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