Page 269 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

either side to live together in the beautiful country. He thought
of one day two halves of South and North Vietnam would
reunify after actual elections at July 1956 with supervised of
International Control Commission as an agreement condition in
Geneva conference. The people will learn to love, share and help
of each other to grow with the peaceful songs that break out
from the people’s heart and echo over the country.

Nguyen’s mother had been living in her blood experience
and was always afraid of the Vietminh cruel rules when the
husband was a nationalism politic active at 1942-1949. His eyes
always turn around to look at any place, watch the people with a
doubtful question in his mind, never sleep twice at one place,
and Vietminh agent for information about him tortured her.

Vietminh will take control North Vietnam after French and
Vietnam National force had withdrawn to the South by Geneva
agreement. She thought it is the dead road for her family if she
listens to her spouse to stay in the North, move back the old
village and make a family living on the farm like he was before
the war. He thought Vietminh would change their policies to
update with the thinking of the people, help the people to build
the country after the war is over as Ho-Chi-Minh was said: “The
people will have land to farm.... and will have the freedom to
live in the independence country.....”. Therefore he always wants
to live closing with the nature of green bamboo bushes, large
ponds, meek domestic animals and in his arms are his wife with
loveful and children.

Her husband loved the fresh air in the early morning with a
little chilly of breeze while the sun is just appearing at the half-
way of the mountains and draw on the sky the giant painting of
the full-color clouds and make the green paddy field growing in
noisy of birds. At this time he loves to watch the dewdrops
become the diamond on the dancing leaves with his fresh

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