From Don Tran, on Thu, 14 Nov 1996 03:21:14 GMT (in response to: I will tell you.)
Dear Phuc, I feel very sorry for the 14-year old kid whom you tried to poison. I realize that when one was young, it's easy to be brain-washed, and I think that it's your case. So, you was a little Viet Cong and thought that Communism was great, and you worked hard for them. Now, do you still have the same idea or you've changed your mind long time ago ? Probably, you was used by Viet Cong when you was young and later found out that whatever they said was not true, then you left the country with hatred, and now you try to revenge by doing the same thing to poison the little kid. Before 1975, Viet Cong lied to all Vietnamese that they fought American to regain independence for Vietnam, that US invaded Vietnam and the Southern Government was corrupted, etc... What about the North Vietnam ? Did they fight their war by themself or they invited Russian and Chinese army in to kill Southern Vietnamese ? Should we say that Russian and Chinese invaded Vietnam too ? And how was the northern government ? How is it now ? After communists took over South Vietnam in 1975, they have turned Vietnam into one of the poorest country in the world. They revenged and put thousands of people in what they called "Re-education camp" which is really a great tortured hell on earth. They suppressed all educated people and did not want people have any education so that they can lie more to people easily. The government has been rotten and super corrupted from the top to the bottom level. All they want is power and money, who cares about Vietnamese people. Millions of Vietnamese have risked their lives on the ocean to seek freedom. Millions families have been shatterred by communism... My family was one of them, and I was a victim of Vietcong. My parents divorced in 1973, and five of us lived with my father. In 1975, I was 13. After the Communist took over South Vietnam, they sent my father to concentration camp. Therefore, five of us had to live by ourselves. I remember I did not have anything to eat, no money to buy stuffs, I had to go to my neighbor to borrow rice day by day. I remember many days I went to school with an empty stomach. In 1977, I was 15 and had to quit school because of my life hardship and worked full time in a restaurant to earn my living. When I was 16, I had to borrow my friend ID and went to hospitals to sell my blood for money to buy food. It was a deadly way to survive, but without doing that, I would have died at that time... Think about it, a 16-year old kid pretended to be 18, went to sell own blood for living... Time went by, I survived and found out way to escaped the Communism. I found my freedom at last and I love every moments of it. I don't want to waste readers time by telling my story, and it was a very sad one to recall. So I stop here, but please DO NOT try to revenge by spreading communism ideas to the kid. You was cheated by Vietcong, and probably your life was shatterred by it, but do not try to save face by lieing to another kids. Forget the past or live with it but do not revenge by doing harm to others.
Don Tran
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