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Thorn In The Heart

         they  can  survive  upon  the  painful...?"  In  the  soft  voice  of
         emotion, he said.

             Suddenly,  the  sound  of  rifles  and  the  scream  and  cry  of
         victims  echoed  in  the  air  at  their  front  side  on  a  little  farther
         distance. They made an effort to look at the echo sound place.
         Nguyen saw a group of French militarists forcing and beating a
         woman, young girl, and gentleman from nowhere into the Duc's
         house  backyard  with  their  hands  had  tied  up  on  the  backs.  A
         gentleman lay on the ground and struggled in painful suffering
         by the butts that French militarists used to strike on him. Two
         other kicked on a woman and dragged a young girl out of her
         arms. The woman and young girl were extremely crying while
         they had bonded together in afraid to die and raping. Suddenly a
         butt struck on her head by a soldier, she lost her arms to release
         her daughter and became unconscious on the ground. A young
         girl was so fearing and could not cry anymore. She opened wide
         her eyes to look at the French soldiers while they are dragging
         her  away  from  her  mother  and  father  of  a  short  distance  in  a
         corner backyard. A woman had recovered after few minutes of
         painting.  She  was  extremely  crying  while  creeping  back  and
         forth  between  her  spouse  and  daughter  to  adjure  the  French
         soldiers  for  her  relatives  in  safe,  but  they  kicked  on  her  and
         guffaw. She looked at Her spouse struggling on the ground with
         blood on his face, and French militarists took a turn to kick at
         his  body,  used  the  butts  of  rifles  to  beat  him.  The  victim
         screamed and cried loudly while the French militarists laughed
         and continued kicked at him as they play a soccer game.

             A soldier took his handgun out of a pistol-case on his hip
         and placed game with his victim. He shot on the ground nearby a
         gentleman’s head, made the dirt toss up in the air and the chunks
         of ground flew to a victims face. He put his handgun on a man's
         cheek  and  pressed  a  trigger  slowly.  A  man  struggled  after  a
         bullet flew through his right ear, while his spouse had prostrated
         herself  at  the  front  of  the  French  Militarists  to  supplicate  the

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