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Thorns in the Heart I

" You think you never fall in love anymore with someone else?
Do you try to kill your love, because you were afraid of the war or
because you lost your first lover? " Phuong asked while she was
looking at the heart couple shape of water on the living table.

Nguyen looked at Phuong, sighed and looked out of the window.
It was
dark with the breath of the wind on the top of trees.

" I don't know. Maybe both of them. " While he looked at
Phuong
and continuing his thinking, he replied.

" Nguyen, you had wrong... You could not kill your love, and
people were dying in the war to get peaceful, so you were afraid or
not it was the

same. "

" Yes, I was wrong... love never come from the war, and Viet-
Cong was shelling their rockets into the cities, and the arm force
bases anytime at night while the people were sleeping, people were
afraid to die...!

Twice, I saw the blood of my friends at the Bien-Hoa Air Force
base and another at Pyramid Radar of L-19 base in Ban-Me-Thuot
city after the Tet Offense. I have seen the building collapsed over
people, dead bodies were under the masses of broken bricks, and
the walls breaking down or the dead bodies laid down on the street,
because the pieces of rockets cut their throats, their head or punch
so deep into their bodies, then

Blood and blood leaked out over their bodies. I have heard the
crying

loudly, creaming, and a deep groan of the wounded people,
which rolled

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