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Thorns in the Heart I

         her husband's corpse, who packed in his poncho with try blood on
         the ground. She could not cry, because her tears had tried after the
         days she had to get bad news of him. She also did not pay attention
         to  the  helicopters,  which  flew  back  and  forth  from  the  deadline
         zones of the war, and the dust was raised in the air by their rotaries
         on the helicopter parking field. Each time it carried full of the soldiers
         into  the  battlefields  and  carried  back  with  some  of  the  wounded,
         who cried of pains and blood covered their bodies. Another carried
         back some dead bodies, which rolled in their ponchos, their blood
         leaked out and dropped on the

             ground.

             The pains and the sorrows of her soul and body were the pains
         of the whole people in our country. Every family had relatives, who
         died in the dirty war and by the dishonest politicians.

             It  was  the  soldier's  courage,  who  saw  their  friend's  corpses.
         Looked at the real images of pains, sorrows of the young widow and
         her children. They may know what will happen to their families in the
         next  future  if  they  die  in  the  war  zone  tomorrow.  From  their
         responsibility for our country and seemed they thought of the death
         that was as light as a feather, they were indifferent and quiet to keep
         a line, one by one stepped up into the helicopters, took a seat and
         already going to the battlefields...! I didn't know They had sorry or
         not, but I do know they don't change their ideal and never stepped
         back such as some of the dishonest politician, who ran away from
         their responsibility for the people to keep their life when they met
         the hard course. It was the pain of our self...!

             We  have  been  looking  for  the  death  of  ourself  by  our  own...!
         Maybe our death places are on the rice fields, the river banks, beside
         of  the  forests,  the  corner  of  the  mountains,  or  the  cross  of  the
         streets.

             Maybe our bodies broken to the pieces like the residue of the
         firecrackers, or as a pilot fighter who was exploded in the same time
         with his plane in the air by Viet-Cong's SAM, or 37mm artillery, which
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