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POST 4/30/2024 American soldiers in Vietnam
I was born in South Vietnam and lived there for 16 years. The South meant the territory south of the 17th parallel. We chose the South to live. The South was my country. We weren't rich but we were safe and free. I had free public education. I never once felt or saw anything to say that Vietnam was invaded by America (Mỹ xâm lược). As a child, I had contact with American soldiers in downtown Saigon -- my father entrusted me to a group of American soldiers who were on their leave, touring Saigon, so those soldiers took me home in a taxi. My father spoke English to these soldiers and they let me ride with them in their taxi. As an elementary schoolgirl, I received American aid: paper boxes of cute toys. At our elementary school Đồ Chiểu, we were given immunization shots and free lunches (sandwich bread, etc., and delicious cold milk that tasted like cream and did not taste like the over-sweet Vietnamese condensed milk w...
This is experimental transposition from tranh son mai cua hoa si VN
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