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Within a few hours, Communist tanks had penetrated the outskirts of Ban Me Thuot, forcing some 4,000 ARVN troops to abandon the downtown area. The South Vietnamese provincial commander, Colonel Nguyen Trong Luat, called on the air force for help. Bombing inaccurately at high altitudes to avoid North Vietnamese ground-to-air missiles, the South Vietnamese F-5s and A-37s managed to blow up Luat's command headquarters. Meanwhile, the 23rd Division's forward command post had been destroyed by sapper charges. For a time, the only ARVN communication with the outside world was provided...
...helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued by a Buddhist nun and finds peace in the contemplative life-only to be reunited unexpectedly with her family and her first love, a young nobleman named Kim Trong, whom she weds on condition that the marriage never be consummated...
Some Americans who have read The Tale of Kieu in French have objected to its "unhappy" ending. Although Kieu had pledged to marry the scholar Kim Trong, she found upon her return from 15 years adrift that she could not sustain more than a platonic relationship. At the time the disaster struck Kieu's family, Kim had been performing mourning rites for a relative in a distant province for several years. Kieu's parents and her sister Van, whom she had asked to marry Kim before she left home, insisted that Kieu follow through with her marriage pledge. Kieu finally...
...Tomorrow I will offer my youth to the revolution," wrote Luong Trong Tan of the 320th North Vietnamese Division shortly before he was killed. "Tomorrow our country will be unified and I will enjoy a peaceful spring...How I detest...
Thuy Kieu's encounter with Kim Trong, as portrayed in the following poem Kim Van Khieu, has special meaning to the Vietnamese who have endured so much suffering in the last fifty years...