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The Echoes of Vietnam: Reflections on a Forgotten Past

This poignant exploration reflects on the lost cultural heritage of Vietnam, recounting the lives of its people through imagery of stone lanterns, ceremonial rites, and the simple joys of laughter amidst nature. The narrative juxtaposes the past with the harsh realities of war, evoking a sense of nostalgia for a time when harmony existed between the people, their traditions, and the land. It highlights the transformation of joy into sorrow, as violence shattered a once-vibrant culture filled with songs and stories, leaving behind only echoes of what once was.

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The Echoes of Vietnam: Reflections on a Forgotten Past

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  1. What were they like?

  2. Did the people of Viet Namuse lanterns of stone?

  3. Did they hold ceremoniesto reverence the opening of buds?

  4. Were they inclined to quiet laughter?

  5. Did they use bone and ivoryjade and silver for ornament?

  6. Had they an epic poem?

  7. Did they distinguish between speech and singing?

  8. Sir, their light hearts turned to stone. It is not remembered whether in gardens stone lanterns illumined pleasant ways

  9. Perhaps they gathered once to delight in blossom, but after the children were killed there were no more buds

  10. Sir, laughter is bitter to the burned mouth.

  11. A dream ago, perhaps. Ornament is for joy. All the bones were charred.

  12. It is not remembered. Remember, most were peasants; their life was in rice and bamboo.

  13. When peaceful clouds were reflected in the paddies and the water buffalo stepped surely along terraces, maybe fathers told their sons old tales.

  14. When bombs smashed those mirrors there was time only to scream.

  15. There is an echo yet of their speech which was like a song. It was reported that their singing resembled the flight of moths in the moonlight.

  16. Who can say? It is silent now.

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