Page 379 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

out on the sky with naturally and attractive. Those centers were
close to the beach and trained the young man to be an officer of
Naval, Air Force, and Non-commissioned officer for Army, Marine,
Ranger, and Airborne. Also, they were the center for the love stories
by the young men, who put away their books and pens. The young
men came Nha-Trang city from any direction to be the soldiers and
to be the lovers of the local young ladies those were the student girls
of Vo-Tanh, Le-Qui-Don, and Bo-Đe high schools. Or other young
ladies, who were the soldier lovers. They came to Nha-Trang city
from any parts in South Vietnam to visit and lived with their dream
men at the weekend of happiness.
Nguyen called Nha-Trang city was a paradise for lovers. The love
in their arms were the soldiers and the young ladies. They make love
of each other, so they were tight together and forgot their future of
the sorrow separated.

Yes... Her future will have the sorrow of waiting for him by the
longest day and night. She will have the pain of his news, will get a
deep groan of sobbing at midnight without sleeping by the bad
nightmare about her lover. Her body will be thin and fading...
Soon or late her lover will break or lose a part of his body by the
war since she lost her smile and tearful in her life...!
Yes... His lover was today not tomorrow. Today, he was gentle
holding his lover's low back, walking on the sand-bank in the warm
sunlight, with the white clouds were flying slowly on the high sky,
and his front is the long and wide waves ocean. He was looking at the
horizon of the sunset on the sea, gave her a deep kiss and don't pay
attention to anything around him because he already knows his
future.

Tomorrow, he will involve in the politicians' dirty war game. It
was nothing more for his choice, even the time for him to think of his
lover and no meaning that he would like to be or not. The peace was
not on the soldier's hands...! Gun will be on his hands to looking for
his enemy anywhere in the cities, in the countryside, on the sea or in
the forest to kill each of other...! He will kill his enemies or be killed

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