Page 228 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

Union, pulled back to Hung-Yen city and waited for reinforce,
while the new papers in Hanoi were running other hot battles.

Vietminh was raising the full assault skill with some
position warfare along the Red River delta as Thai-Binh, Hoa-
Binh battle. It made General De Lattre De Tassigny falling deep
in sorry after his son was kill and few dozens thousand soldier
casualties on Non-Nuoc (Ninh-Binh) battle.

Nguyen’s mother was sad, cried in silent of painful
suffering. She tied the white turbans on her children and her
rough hair head to be in mourning for her spouse, always lay on
the bed with his old letters on her hand, and sobbing.

It seemed she wanted to die until an afternoon Nguyen
father stepped down from the pedicab with his right hand
hanged on his neck by the bandage wire.

Nguyen cried loudly in joyful, pulled off the white turban
and running toward his father. He held his father right ledge and
called at the top of his voice:

"Oh my God...! Mom....! My-Thanh...! Father was back
home."

Nguyen's mother was sitting up on the bed and looking at
the family picture in renting her heart after she had read the last
letter that Trung-Thanh sent to her from Cho-Noi firebase. In
suddenly she threw the picture on the bed while her tears were
running out on her hollow cheeks. She stood up in a hurry, ran
out of the door, looked at Trung-Thanh in quietly and fell on his
left arms with sobbing. My-Thanh jumped around her father
with her over joyful, hold her father left foot and had voice
loudly:

“Mom...! Father....! Father....! Home...!”

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