Page 81 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

“Nothing can change his mind now...!”

"Poor my grandson...! He is too young to understand about
the dirty of war...!"

"But he had learned the dirty of war by his eyes and right
here in the village. Those things will never fly out of his
mind...!"

"Therefore I was a worry for his future. It will affect his life.
His soul will change after he saw all the bad things!"

Nguyen's grandma had sighed, gave a quick look at Nguyen
again and said:

"It is easy to forgive but very hard to forget! Anyway, you
can not make a difference to change his thinking now." She
stared at her spouse.

"What did you see after you had gone back home?

Nguyen was eating a sweet potato without cooking while he
continued quietly to pay attention at his grandparent
conversation in a low whisper voice.

"Yes, I saw all the bad and dirty things...! Our home burned
down. It had a big and deep bomb hole in the living room. Some
of the cannonballs exploded on the backyard and storehouse
collapsed. The domestic animals die in their stalls by the pieces
of cannon shells, which cut and stabbed on their bodied or
burning until dying in the stall.”

“Oh my God...! What happens for Viet-Minh soldiers in our
house?”

“I saw about two dozen Viet-Minh soldiers' bodies, who
died by bombs and burned in the fire. Most of them lost their
arms and legs, coiled on the ground at front and backyard in the

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