Page 17 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

How he can swim in the current struggling life of war and
with the matter of his principle, he can’t stand like a dead rock
to be a target of his brother enemies.

Life has so many things to tempt the people in the living
time. It raises the people to the top of the mountain passion
fame. Also, it has much much more ways of the cruel to press
the people down until the bottom, but the people will be the
same and equal after they were died to become the dust. What
will they bring with them when their bodies returned to the
earth? Nothing....!

Nguyen is like anyone else in the world, who suddenly
emerges from the shadows of life, loves the peaceful of the
natural and happiness to be the humanity, but he could not have
what he was dreaming of doing for his future! Instead, he got
what he did not want to be that become a soldier killer under the
protection of laws and will die at any time on anywhere by the
bad ambition of the leadership from both sides of North and
South Vietnam.

Vietnamese people involved toward both sides bloodbath
and their brother were enemies to kill for compete and survive in
their own country. The painful of Vietnamese people are dying
on their own race hands by the foreign guns. They talked the
same language but seemed they do not understand of one to
another to make peace for their own country. They looked at the
mirror to surprise for their faces, as they do not see themselves
on their brothers, who they called enemies and wish to kill.

Sometimes, Nguyen thought that do not let what he was
thinking of another side to interfere with what he can do to
grow, and survive the dirty war. Because The truth of his life
was choof bombs and cannon shells, that will blow up anywhere
in the cities after Viet-cong attacked South Vietnam on Tet
Lunar of Mau-Than 1968.

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