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Thorn In The Heart

Thanh-Lap Village. They left her dead victim body on the filed
for the chilly winds, and sad voice of the insect in the later
evening, while few early stars were sparkling on the gray sky
like the tears and soul of the victim, that she was painful and
sobbing to look back at her body in sorry of the short life.

Nguyen always remembered a French soldier’s face and his
actions when Nguyen closed to the dead for the first time hiding
in the brush. A Foreign Legion soldier shot at his hiding place in
suddenly after he saw Nguyen standing up and called the
farmers around to help a victim. A soldier walks toward the
brush with his body without clothes, and his handgun directed at
Nguyen in angry. He grabbed Nguyen’s hairs, pull Nguyen out
of the brush, slapped on Nguyen’s face while Nguyen opened
wide his eyes in afraid to look at a giant soldier with the hairs
are full on his chest and dry mud on his body. He kicked on
Nguyen’s buttock after broken out a few dirty words, grabbed
Nguyen’s belt and threw Nguyen on the muddy pond then he got
away after he fired around Nguyen few shots.

After the accident, Nguyen ran back to his grandfather home
at full speed, told all story of the Foreign Legion soldiers on the
field to his grandfather, kept quiet and watch the white patrol
soldiers on the field to get away the problem.

Sometime Nguyen weak up at midnight by the dog barking,
found his grandfather slitting of the windows in the darkroom to
look at the path closing his house. Nguyen always wondered to
see few guerilla communists forced a man in the village by their
guns and scimitars to move out of the village under the dim
moonlight in the shadow of the green fence.

The head’s victim covered the black cloth bag, and his
hands tied on his back. He does not struggle against the black
clothes guerilla communist group, but he was painful suffering
inside his steps to limp on the path. The sometime victim
stopped and turned his head in the black bag to look back on the
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