Page 179 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

The war was back in the South with the big flame by the
foreigner’s weapons, and soon it may be spread to the North to
kill the people on both sides. The whole country will be on fire.
The bomb craters will count on the cities, village, and fields.
There will have the dead people lying on the streets, and houses
collapsed with blood and bad smell. Nguyen was afraid for the
situation of war as any young men of this country were worry
about their lives. They had not a thing more for choice than to be
the soldiers, learn to be a killer and to be killed.

The questions crossed his mind in confusion:

“Who will claim to be the winner? What will the country
count disaster? Who was killed and will be killed to sacrifice for
the country and made the crook politicians proud of their words?
Will the soldiers be the hero or the victims for the crook
leaders?” The answer for him was the sigh and lamenting.

The Vietnam struggling history that Nguyen had learned
was the remotest period of the legendary half story, and
Vietnamese people were proud of it with their indomitable
traditions to resist their enemies for any time.

By the Vietnam foundation unofficial history, the
Vietnamese people were the descendants of the Dragon and
Fairy family. Mr. Lac-Long-Quan had embodied from a dragon
of the Pacific Ocean, lived in the King palace of the water god,
and married Mss. Au-Co, who was a beautiful and gentle lady in
the fairyland. Fairy Au-Co gave birth of hundred eggs, and those
eggs opened for hundred children. The Dragon-Fairy family had
separated by two with fifty children followed their father
downward the ocean side. Other fifty children were with the
mother going upward to the Phong-Chau, and promoted the first
son to be a King name Hung-Vuong. Hung-Vuong had founded
the kingdom for Van-Lang country, and he was the first King of
Vietnamese people with the nickname Hong-Bang. The Van-
Lang country was in the roller of the hereditary name Hung-
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