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Thorn In The Heart

Nguyen’s childhood fearing of war left behind the North at
1954 to follow his father in the narrow escape for Communist at
midnight and ran away to the South. But he never forgets the
bomb thunder blasts with the screams of the people in the flames
of the hell of his village.

Nguyen’s youth was growing beside the thick forest of the
central Lam-Vien highland Ban-Me-Thuot city in South
Vietnam, where he heard the echo sound of canons at midnight
from the 45th Regiment firebase in Northwest Ban-Me-Thuot
city.

Sometimes he saw the military conveyor hurry running on
the Thong-Nhat boulevard with full soldiers and supplies.
Nguyen always looked at the trucks hauling the heavy guns to
think of the bombs and flame images at his childhood in the
North. It made him afraid of death and thought of the country
will convulse with the war by the hate to each other and
foreigner guns.

Nguyen thought of Ban-Me-Thuot city! One day it will
break everything as the yellow leaves falling in autumn by the
rain wave thunderstorms of heavy guns and bombs of both sides
how the people will find the safest places to hide and escape
communist rifles to survive, while surround Ban-Me-Thuot were
the thick forest with wild lives and cold climate!

Ban-Me-Thuot city was as the Nguyen’s second root where
the minority mountaineers lived in the thick forest and wore the
loincloth without ambition of power and rich. They loved the
natural resource as they loved the sound of their drums and
gongs that they were playing under the full moon for each
month. They sang the romantic songs and meek as a young deer
was drinking the clear brood water on the foothill under the
moonlight. Their lives always carried of love for each other and
simple as the light wind in the early Spring warm light with the
colorful and green without worry for anything.
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