Dr_Tran: I said the people in my family were extremists, and many of their friends were as such.
What they wanted, what they said, were not any different from what Trần Hưng Đạo wrote in Hịch Tướng sĩ, Nguyễn Trăi in B́nh Ngô Đại Cáo.
"...In the face of these dangers to the Fatherland, I fail to eat during the day and to sleep at night. Tears roll down my cheeks and my heart bleeds as if it were being cut to shreds. I tremble with anger because I cannot eat our enemy's flesh, lie down in his skin, chew up his liver, and drink his blood. I would gladly surrender my life a thousand times on the field of battle if I could do these things..."
"...Quyết Đông Hải chi thủy bất túc dĩ trạc kỳ ô,
Khánh Nam Sơn chi trúc bất túc dĩ thư kỳ ác.
Thần dân chi sở cộng phẫn,
Thiên địa chi sở bất dung..."
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They had reasons to say that. Good ones.
They saw their buddies massacred by VC, some had very horrible deaths, beyond imagination.
They still had tears in their eyes when retelling those stories.
VC put mines under the dead bodies of VNCH's soldiers, and so, when other soldiers took away those bodies, they were killed, too and the bodies were splastered in bits and pieces.
VC had absolutely NO RESPECT for human lives, even kids at 3 yrs old were not spared whenever VC took over a village.
VC killed children at any and at all ages to spread FEAR among villagers, so that they left their houses to move to the city, and VC could get more farm, land, to expand their territory.
Among all crimes against humanity, which one that VC did not commit? NONE, ZERO. ------------------------------
It is only because I put NATIONAL INTERESTS above all, that I want peace, and I think Vietnamese people want peace, too.
There's nothing wrong that anyone keeps his or her hatred toward VC. And personally wants revenge.
BUT when we deal with NATIONAL interests, future, we must suppress, do away with, our own personal agenda.
We MUST NOT let our own feelings causing damage to the greater cause, to the benefits of the ENTIRE NATION.
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