Page 283 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Another close friend was fighting on the battlefields, on the
front line of the countryside Quang-Tri, Dong-Ha, Binh-Dinh,
Phu-Bon, Qui-Nhon cities like Nguyen-Tuan-Vu, Tran-Van-Tu,
Hoang-Van-Hai, Phung-Van-Chinh, Trinh-Viet-Bon... They
were soldiers arm-forces of Army, Parachutist, Marine, and
Ranger. It was not a matter of life and death for them, which
they have the choice to satisfy for the country.

Nguyen also knew that if the war spread anywhere, Ban-
Me-Thuot will break up like his old village. The Thanh-Lap
village was in North Vietnam, which he saw the death, painful
suffering, hungry, and flame when he was nine years old. But
Nguyen would like to be back Ban-Me-Thuot to live, learning,
loving, and remembering all of his past with Ban-Me-Thuot.

The young man as Nguyen, who has been growing in the
war, die with it in their turn, such as the ephemeral love the
candlelight, and got burned to die from its hot game. Some of
Nguyen's close friends were like the small birds that flew out
from the net for the first time and get lost in the storms of the
war. Therefore some of his friends never were back home. If
they were back their home, it was the painful suffering of lost
the part on their bodies. They had broken their souls, fading, and
die in sobbing of their lives!

Every month two H-34 helicopters of The Deity Elephant
Squadron will have the supporting mission for help the 23rd.
Army Division. The pilots took their turn to fly from their 12th.
Air Force base in Nha-Trang to Ban-Me-Thuot. They also used
that alternation mission to move the soldiers of all arms force for
their vacation or transferring.

Nguyen just stepped down on the helicopter parking of L-19
and Pyramid Radar Controller Air Force base area in Ban-Me-
Thuot city. It closed to the main gate and the waiting house.
Nguyen saw Tuan's girlfriend; she was standing at the corner of
the front door of the waiting house. She was facing to the wall,
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