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...their parents and the 12-year-old brother they had to leave behind. But soon they were caught up in the bewildering process of resettlement. Caseworkers from the International Rescue Committee helped the Trinhs apply for Social Security cards and welfare for the four youngest teenagers: Thanh, 19; So Trung, 17; So Lan, 16; and So Huong, 14. The I.R.C. gave the Trinhs $330 for food, supplied them with winter clothing and paid their rent and utilities for two months...
...complex causes of the China-Viet Nam War are also rooted, however, in the historic animosity between the two ethnic cousins, which dates back 21 centuries to the Chinese colonialization of the kingdom of Nam Viet in the Red River Delta. In A.D. 39 two sister queens named Trung Trac and Trung Nhi led a four-year revolt against the Middle Kingdom; a wrathful counterattack smashed the Vietnamese troops at the River Day. Rather than surrender to the Chinese, the two queens jumped in the river and drowned?a martyrdom still honored by Vietnamese girls every March...
...sisters Trung led a successful anti-Chinese rebellion in 39 A.D. and the Tay-Son rebellion (1771) also ousted Chinese rule. These rebellions illustrate both the long history of peasant activism and independence from China, making a mockery of the U.S. assertion that the Vietnamese have always been under Chinese control...
...were the Trung sisters, and what was the Tay-Son rebellion...
...French ended, he was named deputy chief of staff to North Viet Nam's Defense Minister and legendary military strategist, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Tra returned to the South in 1965 to become head of the National Liberation Front's military committee and adopted the pseudonym Nam Trung...