Page 7 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

The un-pleasure dirty war lured the young men away from
school, draw them into the military camps, where they learn the
killing techniques to crossed Nguyen’s mind of the student
dream images of the tender time in suddenly, and recalled the
old thorns memories back to his struggle soul.

Nguyen was born at 1943 in the small village, Thanh-Lap,
Ha-Dong, North Vietnam, where was among the green muddy
rice field on the Red River delta and about 25 miles from Hanoi
Capital.

He survived for the North famine of a lot of people dead on
the rough streets at 1943 in the village, where the people were
continuing to struggle in their tears and blood to be the poor
slaveries for the Communist and French colony evils.

Again, he has followed his parent to escape the communist
and foreign dead cruel rules in the rice field thick dark midnight
of the risky narrow chance for life toward Hanoi Capital.

Nguyen lived in Hanoi Capital in 1950 when he was seven
years old, where his parent bought the one bedroom house for
four people at the end of Thang-Long alley on Bach-Mai Street.

The enter Thang-Long alley closed the Thang-Long theater
and faced to the Bach-Mai French Air-Force base on another
side of Bach-Mai Street. Therefore, Nguyen heard the Vietnam
country songs mixing up with the sound of warplanes, which
carried the bombs under the wings and flown toward their
targets to kill the people and flamed the villages.

Nguyen’s father became one of the National soldiers under
the command of General Hinh, Van and supported under the
dirty French-Viet policies

After French colonizer lost Đien-Bien-Phu battle and the
end the Vietnam War between French colonialism and

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