Monday, March 28, 2011

The Vietnam War - US army is coming to Vietnam.

We now moved to Chao Doc. I know that the U.S. is helping south Vietnam because war is now officially declared. I hate wars, they are just acts of violence that are based on conflicts. It is like a contest where the most powerful country win. War moments are just full of enmity and destruction. I hardly now that the war that is now starting in my country is against communists. North Vietnam supports communism and the south supports capitalism. I guess that this is the reason why the U.S. is helping us.
Here in Chao Doc is a very big military camp. There is where my father is working. He has been trained to fight against communists. I heard, when I was at the communitarian shelter, that not all of the people that live in south Vietnam support capitalism. But they have to pretend that they are actually capitalists because I think that the real capitalists would kill them.
The U.S. army is the one that helps south Vietnam with weapons because actually here we don't have the necessary armament to fight in a war. We are not prepared enough to live a war but I think there is no other choice. People are really angry and ready to fight for what they believe, they don't matter if they hurt children like me. They just want to hurt people that doesn't think like them.
Anxiety is biting me!!! I really don't know what will happen now. I don't know what to expect. :S

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

The Vietnam War - First day of chaos.

It is September 2nd, 1945. I am living in the middle of what  I think will become a war. The leader of the Viet Minh declared today that Vietnam is now an independent republic. I live with my father in south Vietnam. I don't know what are we going to do. I don’t know what will happen with my father's job. He was working at a factory, he was not paid so good but he earned the necessary to eat and to have a home. Since the last month that everything started, he is unemployed and we have moved to a communitarian shelter. Here we receive food and comfort but I really miss my home. I don't know why but I think I will lose it.
Today was a bad day because I heard that all of the men have to go and fight for the country. I don’t want my father to go to the war. It is very dangerous and I don’t want to lose the only thing I have in life.
I will stop writing for today because my father and I are going to a military camp where we are going to be sent to another part of the country.