Page 98 - Thorn In The Heart

Thorn In The Heart

They used these victims as the slaves in the time of the Romance
empire to built the firebase in the North and about six miles
from the Thanh-Lap village. The base was among the Thanh-
Lap, Van, Cham, Bai-Vang, Hoang-Nguyen and Do villages
also, while the villages with the large scan area were in the range
of the canons' shells that had set up in the base.

After the battle of bloodiest, both sides Viet-Minh and
French Union soldiers applied the cruel rules for the villagers.
French militarist soldiers controlled the villages at the daytime
and Viet-Minh was clutching at the villagers to take advancing
at night. Therefore it had resulted in the death and crisis life of
many people in the village.

One time Nguyen had a big mistake when he had a meeting
with all the young children under 13-year-old in the village. The
meeting was for studying and confessing at every Saturday night
on the Church backyard. Nguyen and the young kids in the
village held hand by hand to make a circle and sat nearby one of
another on the ground.

Mss. Hang sat on a chair at the center of kid's cycle, and she
was a left-behind cadre of Viet-Minh to rule the young children
also watching the people in the village.

Mss. Hang taught the young kids to sing the Vietminh's
songs at every Saturday night as:

"A hero was raising at the Easter side. The white pigeons
were flying in the early sunrise mornings. Vietnamese were side
by side, holding the guns, hammer, and sickle. Fighting to seek
independence for the country. The manufacturing will be built
up; the rice field will be green. The Labor Party was the blood in
our struggling heart for freedom..."

One Saturday night, Mss. Hang promoted a Vietminh's kid
hero, who names Lua, Tran-Van and was nine years old. He

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