Page 288 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

"I am sorry...Tuan does understand that he loved you and he
doesn't want you to get hurt, painful suffering all of your life and
because war so he didn't have time to tell you about his
thinking."

"Yes...War has taken Tuan out of my arms. But Tuan was
staying in my heart forever! How I can keep my life back to be
normal people?"

"Time will make you forgiving and forgetting...!"

Nguyen ran toward the red cross signal. He saw Tuan's
father cry while he opens the poncho a little bit to see his son
face. Just in the time Nguyen heart the sobbing voice.

"Poor my son...! You lost half of your body! I could not find
it!

Because of me...! So you do it by yourself. A man was
going to the war he should not carry any love...! You were too
foolish...!" In the emotion of painful Tuan's father lamented
while Tuan's mother sat beside his dead body. She was scream
loudly and cries.

During the time Nguyen and Tuan's father was walking back
and forth

toward all hospital officers to comply with the necessary
formalities. Nguyen always keeps a silent to listen to Tuan's
dead story from his father.

"Tuan was platoon captain commander. His platoon guarded
at Buon-Ho

district area, it was 15 miles from the Northeast of Ban-Me-
Thuot city, and I was his father and also under his command.

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