Page 69 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

The sounds of bombs, canons and any guns were surrounded
them as the thunder strikers. Somewhere the fireballs blasted on
their neighbors and made their house shaking. Nguyen’s grandpa
hurried to pull Nguyen along with him, running across the front
yard while the bombs and cannon shells were exploding on the
area. They ran through the gate and turned right toward the
bamboo’s bushes that close to the paddy. It was the pond's bank
and has a distance of about four hundred yards from their house.
Nguyen's grandma ran after them. She had a puff and blowing
when she got nearby the bamboo’s bushes.

The short and deadly distance made them ran fast more as
they can to race with the bullets, which were flying in the air and
running on the fence wall at their right side.

Just in time, she holds her chest to recover the breath and lay
down on the ground beside Nguyen.

Another two B-26 bomber and two T-28 fighter airplanes
have been making a circle over the village, and the antiaircraft
shells continued exploding around them as the fireworks in the
air. They made the cycles to set the position over the smoke’s
clouds, which rise into the sky before they will strike on the
targets in the village.

Again, the airplanes took a turn to fly going down, dropped
the bombs onto Nguyen's grandparent house and their neighbor
areas then flew up with the maximum speed.

In suddenly, one of the B-26 bomber airplanes got a shot
when it was flying up after released the bombs on the village. It
exploded as a big fireball in the air, just on time a pilot jumped
out the fireball with the parachute burning, and its parts dropped
on the South of the village. He struggled in the air and was a
target for the antiaircraft guns, then like a rock he dropped on
the paddy rice field.

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