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Thorn In The Heart

charred remains. Few soldiers broke the half bodies to the small
parts, so their bowels hanged on the broken wall and their heads
threw on the ground. Brick heaps covered a half of some bodies
at the collapsing wall corners. The strong smells of burning
bodies were anywhere in the area, and smokes were still rising
in the air from the burning columns."

Nguyen’s grandma always made the sign of the cross,
bowed her head in prayer while she was hearing her spouse
talking about the situations, which he saw on the house. Some
time she wiped her tears with the painful suffering in her sigh.

"I gave all my life to build it up; now it broke up in a
second by the war!" In sorrow, she wept and interrupted. “What
did you do when you were there?” She asked.

Nguyen’s grandpa shook his head.

“Nothing...!”

“Why you were there so long to make me worry about
you?”

Nguyen’s grandpa had a little smile.

“Just a few hours...”

“But thought it was the few years...and you knew that it was
a danger for us now.”

“I understood this situation, but I could not keep myself out
of the emotion after I had been there. I walked around on the
house area to check everything with my sorrowful and hate the
people, who want to rule this country by their dirty ambition.”

Nguyen’s Grandma looked at him and shook her head.

“Do you know it was the action of crazy...!”

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