Word: minh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting French legionnaires, fellow Vietnamese and American G.I.s, after standing up to the technology and will of the world's greatest power, this small agrarian land?albeit one well supplied by China and the Soviet Union?was finally on the verge of victory. What durable, wily old Ho Chi Minh had insisted on, what his heirs in Hanoi had continued to demand?the departure of the Americans and their chosen government in the South?was finally coming to pass...
...operative labor. The celebrated Vietnamese orphans--from a country where there was hardly a word for "orphan" until massive American intervention strained Vietnamese families' traditional generosity beyond its capacity for resilience--will grow up peacefully. These children of the war, the "nieces and nephews" to whom Ho Chi Minh directed his last testament, will once again find a secure place in a secure social fabric. And because that fabric is no longer continually frayed by rifle-fire, members of every social class will at last be able to go about their business in peace. City workers, businessmen and shopkeepers, even...
...until the Second World War that the French colony really began to crumble, and the struggle for Vietnamese independence took on a more violent form. And almost from the time that Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam Independence League--the Viet Minh--liberated Vietnam from its collapsing Japanese occupiers, with a Declaration that began by quoting the American Declaration of Independence, the United States did what it could to hold back this struggle...
...After helping Diem wrest control of the South Vietnamese army, the United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave their homes and enter stockades. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh continued to work in the villages in small groups called Chi bo or "party branches," implementing land reforms, limiting taxation, and continuing to win support from rural farmers...
Sticks and Bones. It probably wasn't entirely without a sense of theater that the Provisional Revolutionary Government entered Ho Chi Minh city within hours of May Day, but the war in Vietnam ended with less drama than we might have expected. What of the drama the war produced in the U.S.? David Rabe's Sticks and Bones has usually been considered the best of it, with other works like Medal of Honor Rag being placed by critics "in the tradition of Sticks and Bones." The play is about the psychic warping of a blind Vietnam veteran and the havoc...