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Chinh Nguyên
trees forest, coffee plantations and the Ale village of the
Montagnard people.
The most of his friends in the same class looked at him by
their wonder eyes and shook their heads.
"Nguyen, Oh ... He was a crazy man, is not he?"
"Ban-Me-Thuot city was a small town in the high plateau.
"It was very dangerous over there!”
“ Sometimes, Viet Cong shelling 130mm into the base."
"Yes, it close to Cambodia. Viet Cong can move to Ban-
Me-Thuot from Cambodia's border and attack it easy at any
time."
"Seemed Vietcong had shell their rockets to L-19 Air Force
base and Pyramid some time at midnight much time.”
“ Since around any building in the base has the shelter-pit.
The people could run into those shelter any time if they heard
the air raid alarm."
Nguyen turn to them, asked a person nearby him:
"How do you know about those things?"
"I came to L-19 Air Force base one time, and I read on the
news."
"Do you know why Nguyen volunteer is going to Ban-Me-
Thuot?"
"I do not know; he disappointed in love! It was a danger
over there! He will be killed by Viet Cong someday!"
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