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Thorn In The Heart

Nguyen remembered late of 1965; he just graduated Radar
Officer Vietnam Air Force, he was volunteered to go back to
Ban-Me-Thuot city. It was a small high-land city after
International Conferences had held at Geneva 1954. There were
about over millions people escaped Vietminh, ran away their
home from North to South to find their freedom. They made a
big refugee wave of politic and war at that time of Vietnamese
history. International countries had helped President Ngo-Dinh-
Diem to open the resettlement villages in South Vietnam. They
transported refugees into the development lands and help the
people rebuild their lives over again.

Ban-Me-Thuot was the one of those place, which President
Diem has opened the resettlement villages around it. Therefore
most the people living around Ban-Me-Thuot city came from
North Vietnam. About 20,000 people were living in the small
town Ban-Me-Thuot by all kind of their business. Thirty
thousand others were living around Ban-Me-Thuot city by a
distance of 1 or 4 miles in Hung-Dao, Chi-Lang, Kim-Chau,
Kim-phat, Chau-Son, 14th bridge, Phuoc-An, and Buon-Ho
resettlement villages.

They were working hard every day to nigh, living on their
farms, planting coffee plantations and all kind of vegetables.
Every day they carried or transported their fresh goods to the
market in Ban-Me-Thuot city or to another city for sale. At the
same time, they had learned the Montagnard language to
communicated and sharing with them of either way.

Nguyen's family came to Ban-Me-Thuot from North
Vietnam and living in the Hung-Dao resettlement village from
1955 since Nguyen would like to be back Ban-Me-Thuot to
work in a small Air Force Base L-19. It names Pyramid Radar
controller, at the Northeast and nearby Ban-Me-Thuot city. The
end of the L-19 runway was the Catholic church with a high bell
tower and the downtown; another end was the green of rubber

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