Page 115 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

The people were caught, put in the ion rule net and used to
be as slavery for both sides. Their lives were very slender
between living and dead by depending on the habit of each
soldier in a moment. There is nobody else can keep them in
safety and help them off the dangerous situation.

The village became the sad land of mourning place, but the
people did not want to leave their homelands, where they were
born and lived from the generation to another. They lived as
animals under cruel rules along with their painful suffering, and
their tears dropped on their hands every day. Their minds were
renting with the broken inviolable traditions, and at the same
time their bodies had tired out by the arms force of the evil
aliens and Vietminh's rule policies. Vietminh was Vietnamese
people, who had the same history and language but they did not
learn how to love each one another in the same race. They
opened the bloodbath on their brothers and destroyed the things
that the greatest grandfather had been building by their tearful,
bloodiest and lives for the next generations.

Sometimes the death of the people in the village should be a
joyful game of the person, who had a gun on his hand and evil
thinking in his head. The people always were bending their back
to get a beating, killing without resist and not any reason by
French colonial. Also, Hochiminh's cruel roadmap policies had
killed a lot of people in the dark by Vietminh agents. Ho-Chi-
Mine had said in the Ba-Dinh garden at 1945 that he will lead
the country to find back with French colonial until the people
had freedom in the independent country. By the people, from the
people, and for the people he will die with the nationalism ideal
but not. His policies killed the people more than helpful and
made the people fearing to die instead close for a friend.

Another year of 1951 in the sunset, while Nguyen was
sitting on the bank of the field, watching his youngest uncle
bending his back to plant rice seedling into the muddy field.

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