Page 451 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

" Maybe my parent and your parent escape Viet-Cong from
North to

South Vietnam at 1954. "

" Yes, I think so, over a million people escape Viet-Cong to the
South

at that time. I remembered that after my father went back the

village about two weeks, Viet-Cong knock the door at midnight
and

take him with them, without his news, my mom cried at day and
night,

she thought my father would be killed by Viet-Cong, but he was
back with

his sickness after three weeks he left home, and he told me that
do not tell many people about what happen to my family, and do not
say anything what I heart and saw in my family if someone else ask
me about. I have paid attention to my father; he tells my mother
about the Vietminh's cruel and brainwashing to him ."

" What did they do to your father? " Phuong asked

"Every day, they were considered to fore him working in his
empty stomach until he was tired out, then they give him a new
notebook and pen. They considered threatening him writing
anything, which he has done from the time he was a student at high
school until he was back the village after the Agreement of Geneva
on July 20, 1954. He had repeated and repeated his own story every
day, and they collected all of his papers, read and analyses his same
story every day to compare, and get something missing or mistake
from his repeated writing, which they compared from the first time
of writing to the second of writing and the third of writing then so
on... The more he repeats his own story, the more he gets sleepless,
hungry, and tired out, then the more he gets a small mistake or
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