Conserve the Old South Vietnamese Armed Force Burial Ground
In 1967 I checked out the South Vietnamese War Memorial and also cemetery north eastern of Saigon. I was driving a young Vietnamese woman, PB, that was initially from North Vietnam. Her hubby, a young police officer had been killed by a booby-trap whilst handing over the body of a dead Viet Cong.
She is the study of 'young female on steps' in 2 of my pictures on the war. I have an excellent sight of the monolith in another. It was maybe still new, but in immaculate condition. My photo of the statue of the ARVN soldier has always for me represented all the despair of the war. These pictures may be located on my blog site: Vietnam, notes and also photos of a very individual battle.
I have actually just discovered a song on YouTube sung by Ho Ngoc Ha accompanied by Lam Nhat Tien and also Dang The Luan, called 'Em disadvantage nho mua xuan'. Taking a look at the video clip of this song and then the image of this statuary as well as various other memories brings up all the bitter wonderful sadness of that war.
The video clip by Frank Ford of today state of this burial ground and also the fate of the statue shows the utter contempt that is presented to the memory of the dead. My own sensation is also that a lot of the young of Vietnam do not understand about nor dream to understand about the battle. The dead of all sides in a dispute must be appreciated. The only mitigating factor for me is that once I saw on TV in Vietnam, in concerning 1970, a clip of the UNITED STATE military exploding a Viet Cong battle memorial they had discovered.
The last straw for me is the quantity of money that is being invested on economic advancement, tourist, the devastation and also exploitation of the forests and so on whilst revealing such utter ridicule for the dead of one side in what wanted all a civil war. That the statue had been ruined throughout the final fights of 1975 one can comprehend, if also sadly; at the very least if it was carried out by troops in the area as well as not bought from the high command.
I have never ever checked out Karl Marx and understand little of their beliefs. I often question if capitalism as well as the coming with eco-friendly damage that accompanies it do not do as much damages as war itself.
In any kind of case it has always been part of Vietnamese society to regard one's senior citizens. To value the dead. Learn More Here There can be no hope of a final peace in a country that was functioned by greater than thirty years of battle, against the Japanese, the French, the Americans and also finally throughout that problem against each other, until such time as both sides can praise the other's dead.
