Page 521 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

attached Hue at 1968, the Lunar new year."

"Oh...! My God...! Do you lived in Hue 1968?"

Thu looked at Hanh-Phuong at the moment, the sobbing of the
sorrow lives.

"Yes, after graduating from Gia-Long high school in Saigon. I
married

Huan, and followed him moving to Hue. We lived at Tran-Hung-
Dao street, closed to the Dong-Ba market. Viet-Cong advantaged the
celebration of the coming lunar new year 1968, and the war broke
up anywhere at the night of 01/31/1968 in Hue city. My husband
was a captain of Region Force. He was caught in our house by Viet-
Cong, they bind his arms behind his back on the back yard, and
tortured him to get his information about the sub-sector and the City
Hall..."

"Did they done something for you and your children?" while
Thu stops talking and wipes her tears, Hanh-Phuong asked.

"They pushed two kids in the bedroom and me, and shut the
door, but I still heard the screaming and cried voice of my husband
loudly. Until

they do not get any information from my husband. They forced
me, my son, out of the room and we stood before my husband of the
space while they pointed their guns to us. I was so afraid to die for all
of us and could not cry. My son cried and ran towards his father in
the accident, but one of Viet-Cong soldier hold him back. They beat
me up to make my husband declared his information. He didn't give
them any his knowledge about the sub-Sector, but he told me:

"I am sorry...! I could not help you anymore, and we will die
together. My first son was struggling, bites on a Viet-Cong soldier's
hand and running toward his father. Suddenly, the handgun opened

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