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Thorn In The Heart
never forgot the green bamboos bushes, where had nests of the
white egrets on the top. They were dancing with the wind on the
top of bamboo, and noisy. Also, he always remembered the rice
fields with the waves were continuing actuation. Nguyen loved
the county side around the village, where had clear water in the
ponds, wildflowers opened in full bloom on the field, and the
birds sing on the branches in the early days.
He knew that the way to go back the village had blocked by
the war, and the war was continuing to stretch out on over the
country by Vietminh and French colonials. They fired for profits
and counted the deaths of people to set their agenda road map of
the communism and colonialism on Vietnam.
Nguyen learned all the painful, sorrow, and dreadful of the
war that occurred in the village. The French Fighter Airplanes
dropped the napalms to burn all over the village, killed much the
people. All kind of guns and canons of both sides had continued
to fire into and out from the village at day and night until the
village became the killing field. The dead bodies of any age lay
on anywhere with the bloodbath or burn in the collapsed house.
Nguyen always remembered the cruelty of the Viet Minh
agents in his grandparent storehouse at midnight. He saw they
tortured a man, and raped a woman until the victims died. Then
Vietminh agents carried the victims toward the dam and threw
them in rive after they had tight the large rocks on the bodies.
Nguyen looked at them as the wild people of the stone age in the
fiction film without moral, and they lived with the communist
idea.
Also, he never forgets the evil actions of French militarist
soldiers for the people in the village. They applied the slavery
rules on Vietnamese people for their domination goal, and do
not care about people lives! They could beat any person at any
time without reason, and just by their emotions. They raped the
young woman that they interested in her beautiful and healthy
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