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Thorn In The Heart

         set  up  to  kill  the  people  and  made  the  crisis  anywhere  in  the
         cities.

             Nguyen knew he would be stick with the war in the future
         and  there  was  nothing  more  to  choice  as  his  father  was.  The
         Second  Indochina  War  between  Nationalism  and  Communism
         was  spreading  out  on  the  South  by  the  ambition  of  North
         Vietnam. They claimed of many thousands of civilians and the
         fighting soldiers on both sides.


             After the battle Binh-Gia and the first president, Diem died
         by the coup of group General; General Duong-Van-Minh was a
         leader. The war was as a spot of oil spreading over the paper in
         South  Vietnam  and  had  no  chance  to  end  with  bloody  of  the
         people.  Both  side  governments  of  North  and  South  Vietnam
         were falling deep into the foreign interfere policies hole to make
         the bloodbath for brother and devastated country...!

             At the time Nguyen shared a room of  Mr. Chuong’s family
         in  Bui-Phat  resettlement,  where  closed  Truong-Minh-Giang
         market  and  a  side  of  Truong-Minh-Giang  street  in  Saigon
         Capital. He shared a room as a temporary place to live and going
         to Faculty University Saigon every day.

             Sometime Nguyen was in his narrow room of the first floor,
         opened the Vietnam history book to learn, but he did not read
         any  word.  He  left  a  book  on  the  table,  walked  toward  the
         window,  looked  at  the  Skyraider  warplanes  making  a  cycle  in
         the  sky  and  slides  down  to  landing  on  the  Tan-Son-Nhat  Air
         Force base.

             Most the time Nguyen was quiet to think of the  dirty war
         that destroyed his village and killed a lot of people when he was
         a  nine-year-old  boy  in  1950.  It  was  renting  his  heart  with  the
         painful images of French militarist that beat his Grandparents on
         the field, tortured then killed the farmers in the Church, and shot
         his uncle on the paddy.

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