From: shc1909@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Son Hung Cao)
Subject: Re: Nhu'~ng -die^`u tro^ng tha^'y ma` -dau -do''n lo`ng...
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Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio
Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:54 EST  

In article <"7-Jan-9313:44:18PST".*.Christina_N._Tran.LAX1B@Xerox.com>, Christina_N._Tran.LAX1B@xerox.com writes...
> Hi everyone,
> 
>A friend of mine  just came back from VN.  Her trip report is so touching that
>i've asked her permission to share it with you.
> 
>/tn

Cha`o ca'c ba.n,

No+i na`o chu? nghi~a co^.ng sa?n co`n ma.nh, no+i ddo' nghe`o ddo'i, la.c
ha^.u, ta`n a'c  va^~n co`n ba'm tru.;  No+i na`o chu? nghi~a co^.ng sa?n 
gia?m va` bo+'t a?nh hu+o+?ng no+i ddo' bo+'t nghe`o ddo'i, no+i ddo' no a^'m 
ba('t dda^`u pha't trie^?n......;  No+i na`o kho^ng co`n chu? nghi~a co^.ng 
sa?n, no+i ddo' co' tu+. do, no a^'m va` gia`u co'....Ve^` VN mo^.t chuye^'n
ddi tu+` Ha` No^.i to+'i SaiGo`n, tu+` tha`nh pho^' to+'i tho^n que^ va`
ngay ca? kinh te^' mo+'i, thi` ca'c ba.n se~ tha^'y ro~ ddie^`u ddo'...

Muo^'n nu+o+'c Vie^.t Nam Tu+. Do, Da^n Chu?, DDo^.c La^.p, No a^'m, Ha.nh 
Phu'c, Va(n Minh va` Gia`u Co', chi? co' mo^.t con ddu+o+`ng duy nha^'t la` tu+`
bo? chu? nghi~a co^.ng sa?n;  Thi` mo+'i mong theo ki.p ca'c nu+o+'c
la`ng gie^`ng va` tro+? tha`nh cu+o+`ng quo^'c ta.i DDo^ng Nam A'.

Tru+o+'c 1975, Sai`Gon ddu+o+.c me^.nh danh la` ho`n NGO.C vie^~n ddo^ng;
Nho+` o+n Ba'c Ho^` va` DDa?ng co^.ng sa?n Sai`go`n nga`y nay ddu+o+.c
me^.nh danh la` ho`n DDa' vie^~n ddo^ng.

Ho^` Chi' Minh va` DDa?ng Co^.ng Sa?n VN dda~ la`m ha.i bao nhie^u the^' he^.
tre?, pha' tan ne^`n kinh te^' nu+o+'c VN, pha' tan lua^n thu+o+`ng dda.o
ly', chi'nh tri. thi` ddo^.c dda?ng do+ ba^?n kho^ng tu+. do, da^n chu?,
bo'c lo^.t ta^.n xu+o+ng tu?y nha^n da^n......  Ne^`n kinh te^' hoa`n toa`n 
su.p ddo^?, kho^ng bie^'t chu+`ng na`o mo+'i xa^y du+.ng la.i ddu+o+.c nhu+ 
tru+o+'c 1975, chu+' ddu+`ng no'i to+'i vu+o+.t xa ca'c nu+o+'c la`ng gie^`ng.
..................

DDau ddo+'n thay cho nu+o+'c Vie^.t ye^u da^'u!!!!!!  Chu'ng ta ne^n co^' ga('ng
gia?i thi'ch cho ngu+o+`i co^.ng sa?n hie^?u, chu? nghi~a co^.ng sa?n kho^ng
the^? xa^y du+.ng Vietnam tie^'n le^n ddu+o+.c.  DDu+`ng giu'p ho. ha.i da^n
to^.c ye^u qu'i cu?a chu'ng ta......

LA^'Y CHI' NHA^N THA('NG CU+O+`NG BA.O...............

Na(m mo+'i chu'ng ta ca^`u mong xa^y du+.ng mo^.t Vie^.t Nam mo+'i trong
tu+. do, DDo^.c la^.p, da^n chu? va` gia`u co'........

SHC

> 

>ps. ma^'y ho^m nay tro'`i cali buo^`n qua'.  Co' le~ tro'`i cu~ng -dang kho'c
>cho tha^n pha^.n cu?a ca'c em be' mo^` co^i ta.i VN.
> 
>---------- report begins-------
> 
> f As we (...) have seen , life  around Saigon is  much  better than in the
>Central parst of the country . People make  money  faster and  easier .
>Children in the Saigon streets wear better clothes , they look heathier than
>the kids we saw  in Hue . We thought that the children in Hue  needed more help
>, that's why we gave  the money to  Co nhi vien Duc Anh instead of  co nhi vien
>Bien Hoa.
> 
> f The address of " Co nhi vien Tay loc ..." that you  folks gave us , now
>is the  Training School  for  The Party member. It took us about 3hrs to find
>Su co MT . She  now manages  an orphanage  with about  35 orphans and a
>preschool  with 200  children   in  an old  small  pagoda , near  lang Khai
>dinh .  Some one offered her  few ounces of gold to by a Honda motorcycle , she
>used the gold to buy  building materials , and people around there  are helping
>her build another buiding to expand the orphanage .
>  f Vien  Duc Anh was  a big  orphanage  ,  the biggest in the Central
>with  many  well  equipped   facilities . Many  hundreds of homless  children
>nested there . Now , 3/4 of the  place has been taken away .  All the nuns were
>sent home.  Children therefor not much left , most of them  are handicap . The
>nuns ( about 7 ) now earn their livings by embroildering . They also have  a
>preschool with about  150 kids.
> 	Both   Preschools (... )  can only  accept children under 5 years old.
>The Government worries about  their  "influence" on the  ""chau ngoan Bac/  Ho
>""  !. Su co MT and Soeur C.     send  their thanks to you folks for helping
>them  help the children . They promised to send some pictures of the kids . To
>me , they are truly Angels . Your money sure  brought some  warmth to our
>little friends in the cold winter of Hue .
>  BUT ,  visitting those orphanages still  gave us   smiles and warm
>feelings . When we came to Quang tri ,  our hearts were broken .  I would like
>to share  with you some " scenes " that I 'd seen . I'm sorry if it bothers
>you.
>Well , we came to Quang tri  in the  afternoon . It was cold . It was raining
>heavily. On the road , we saw 2 children  about 6,7 years old  carrying (
>khieng) a bundle of firewood , perhaps  they headed to the market . Their
>clothes  were torn and dirty . When we came to the village of Tri Buu , we met
>a group of  kids coming back from school , they walked bare foot on the  red
>muddy road .They  covered themselves from the rain with pieces of  nylon .
>Their clothes were dirty  worn out pyjamas . No sweaters .No shoes. No
>umbrellas.
>That 's only few of them that we'd  seen. How many hundreds -or thousands more
>?!
>   Perhaps most of us remember that Quang Tri was flattened in the Summer of
>1972 ( mua he do lua ) . Many people  moved to other better places . Many did
>not want to leave the homeland . They came back and rebuilt their homes from
>dirt . The communism is still very strong there .That why their lives are so
>hard .
> Talking to my brother , who is  the Pastor of the villages , I learned that
>many  kids  quit school  after 5th grade- even the highschool is only 2 km
>away. , they have to help their parents  earn some money (  catch fish , birds,
>frogs ;collecting firewood ; planting vegetables ) .  Even my brother , he has
>a "family of pig ", he plants hundreds of banana trees around the church ! (
>isn't it funny ?  ).  He said a few dollars mean a lot to those poor kids . 1
>dollar a month can encourage  a kid to  keep going to school . A set of cloth
>costs about  $2 , and a kid needs only 1 or 2 sets a year .
> The trip back to my hometown  gave me quite a few sleepless night . It also
>gave me the courage  to ask you all  a  favor :
>  On our next charity meeting, please  share a few of your spare changes to the
>kids of my brother's  villages ' kids .  Again , I did not ask for help for the
>churches nor for my brother .  I only want  us to help the  kids , through my
>brother .
>  If your kids want to put away some good clothes, shoes , please keep it . I
>plan to  make another trip next year .
>....
> 
> 	Thanks for reading and sharing .
> 
>-------------end report-------
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