Page 35 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

leaders called enemy or to kill as he will be a sacrifice for the
country without a dream and do not want to be.

The war had spread out anywhere in the country, threatened
the people lives, claimed the almost thousand civilians and
fighting soldier lives on both sides for a week. The flame was
burning and destroyed the people lives, made Vietnam broken
into a part, and pleased the crook leaders politicians, who chose
the war to solve the ideologies problem.

Nguyen followed his parent to escape Viet-Minh for the
second time toward the South at 1954, where he learned how to
share and love for people. He grew to be an adult on the Central
High Land along with the echo of the fighter planes, bombs,
rockets, and canons, which dropped onto the forest surrounding
the Ban-Me-Thuot city.

Sometimes Nguyen has a little dream that he will go back to
his old village in the North where he was born and grows along
with his grandparent’s love until he was ten years old. He will
live there in the peaceful and revere the beautiful countryside
until his last day. He will care for his grandparent’s graves, sit
beside them and may cry by the emotion of missing love.

Nguyen remembered that he left behind his grandparent in
their weakness old age, and alone with their memories sorrowful
to follow his mother escaping Viet-Minh toward Hanoi capital in
the midnight crisis of fearing to die. They passed away without
their sons and grandchildren besides them after Nguyen had left
the village for a year later. Also, Nguyen knows that his
grandparent was die in slowly of painful without the help of
their children and buried by their neighbors. Nguyen was
slowly going away from his grass root, and the way Nguyen
back home had blocked on the parallel 17th at Hien-Luong
bridge, where became the sorrow place for Vietnamese people.

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