Page 505 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

toward South of Lao, or around Quang-Tri, Dong-Ha and Khe-Sanh
provinces. I can count about 15 to 20 sorties of them, and sometimes
I had felt the ground shaking after I saw them about 10 minutes.

If you see the results of a B-52 raid on the ground of Dong-Ha,
Quang-Tri and Khe-Sanh provinces, or Ho-Chi-Minh trail, you will
think of the beehive. Yes, the B-52 dropped the bombs onto the
ground, where Viet-Cong had to concentrate their force, or transport
their military supplies from North to South Vietnam for their
invasion. While the bombs were howling in the air of dreadful and
had continued to explode on the ground like the stroke of lighting,
the ground had shake and flame as the story of doomsday in the
bible. You couldn't have more any figure or image which had
devastated and annihilate with whole force than that.

We knew that after Viet-Cong had lost on Tet Offense. They had
reinforced their troops in the tri-border of Lao, Cambodia and South
Vietnam. Those were Ashau Tchepone, Aluoi in South of Lao. They
transport their military supply on Ho-Chi-Minh trail, which was along
with Truong-Son mountain to continue concentrated their troops on
Dong-Ha, Quang-Tri, Khe-Sanh provinces, where were the South
Vietnam front line. Also, they would like to cut the RT 14 National
high way too apart, since they threatened cities along with the RT 14
National high way and closed tri-border such as Dak-Seanad, Dak-To,
Ben-Het, PSB Charlie, Kontum, Pleiku, Duc-Co and Ban-Me-Thuot
city.

Nguyen, Ban-Me-Thuot city, was our home...! It was as a
beautiful and innocent Montagnard girl. She was growing like a
wildflower in the forest, her hair like the springs and rivers, which
were winding on the foothill and played with the green. Her strong
as the tree which raises into the air, and free. Her voice was whisper
such as the sound of breeze and babble of streams under the
Grayling waterfall. The warm early sunrise and the sunset were her
love glance sights. The ground color was her graceful, dark skin, and
the ravine Lam-Tuyen was her sleeping in the dream of her lover...
Nguyen, I loved and remembered Ban-Me-Thuot such as my lover...!
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