Vietnam+War--Vietnamese+View

Back to home Click Here To page 2 Click Here This is page 3  Vietnamese View Of the Vietnam War During the Vietnam war the Vietnamese really suffered. A lot of people became poor. I personally know someone who is Vietnamese and was living there during part of the war. His story is amazing and extremely sad. Here it is~ When I was a teenager and I was living in Vietnam, we were living in one of the main areas they were bombing. We had a nice home there, it was expensive too and we had just bought it. It was a comfortable life; all of our family lived there. My mother wanted to go to America, but my father wanted to stay there. It was going to take something big to get my father to leave. The day it happened started like any other day. We woke up, bathed, ate, and packed up for school. We were heading out the door when we saw this big metal shiny object in our lawn. My mother screamed. It was a bomb. But, thank god, it was a fluke. My father finally decided to have us leave. The next day we left we only could bring one small suitcase of things. We boarded a boat and sat down on the bow. Suddenly about a hundred more people boarded the small boat we were smooched. We were on that same little boat for about three weeks. No bathroom, no beds just the hard planks under your feet. Tired? How do you sleep when there are dirty smelly, new people surrounding you. When we got to our new home in America, it was a very small home, nothing like our old one. Two days after we settled in, we got a telegram; my family back home had been killed 3 days after we left. There was a bombing that killed them. That night was a bittersweet dinner, we were alive because we left, but everyone that stayed, died. media type="custom" key="695533"