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Thorn In The Heart

MP truck to keep safe for the street. It was a pleasure for the
people on the Bach-Mai street of the bars’ area in a short time.
The other drunk soldiers will appear at the next moment; then
the old sad-shows will have performed on the street by the new
players. Cause French colonials used Vietnam to be a dominated
country and they want to be the master of the native slavers.

Bach-Mai street has the electric trams. Its beginning stations
confronted to Mo market on the other side of the street. The
trams stop nearby the Bach-Mai Air Force base entrance and
cross the near front gate of Dong-Xuan Market through the
Hung-Dao street. Then it turned a haft circle on the Sword lake
bank in Hanoi central toward O-Cau-Giay and going to Ha-
Dong City.

Every morning, Nguyen took an electric tram going to
Bach-Mai elementary school. It was in a large Buddha pagoda
on the Bach-Mai street, where an old bonze and few young
Buddhist priests lived and took carrier all the business and clean
up for the pagoda. It had a pond on the central large front yard
with the wide red brick steps going down into the clear water,
and the lotus leafs covered most of the surface of the water. The
large central room set up an altar for the big Buddha statue. He
sat crossed-legged on a large lotus flower with a praying
position, his left hand against his chest and his right hand against
his knee and held the chaplet. The Buddha statue eyes were fairy
and sweet for many people, who came into the pagoda to get the
peace for their soul. The prayer beat once on the large bell in
carefully at the right front corner of the central room and walked
toward the Buddha altar. They nodded their heads three times
with few of burning incenses on their hands and bent their knees
on the floor. Then they bowed their heads in prayers and
supplicated Buddha to help them in peace for their lives.

A den on the Buddha statue backside and around the center
room was the sacred statues with incenses and smoke on their
altars.
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