From: tin@smsc.sony.com (Le Tin)
Subject: Re: Re : History lessons
Followup-To: alt.politics.vietnamese
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp, San Jose, CA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:14:41 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.043758.10042@emr1.emr.ca> knguyen@emr1.emr.ca (Kim Nguyen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.004711.8137@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Le Tin) writes:
>>  I sympathize with Kim and others who had suffered greatly at the
>>  hands of CSVN.  I understand the pain and angers that they felt.
>>  I have lost many loved ones to the hands of CSVN and have seen
>>  first hands the things they done to my relatives.
>>
>>  Please do not misunderstand me when I say that we must learn from
>>  the past and to let go of all the negative emotions.  I am not asking
>>  anyone to deny that these things happened.  Nor am I asking them to
>>  simply forget it just like that.  What I am asking is for everyone
>>  to let the healing begin.  Remember the pain and sufferings, but do
>>  not let the angers and hatred consumed you.  Revenge will make you
>>  feel good, but it does not bring back what was lost and gone.
>>
>
>In all you talk about angers and forgiving. Forgiving or not, we must go 
>because we cannot live in a new system. Now one can try to do differently
>with what I once confronted with. I hope them best luck.
>                                                         
>Deceit : Have you ever tried to work with them ? Let try it and let me know
>later your experience.                                                                     
>                                                                           
>My message is simple : As repeated in the past, they often use tactics to
>recruit young and successful intellectuals who did not know practically  
>about communists by the banner of patriotism. As young man who must be   
>energetic, ideal and patriotic, they are ready to advance and go into
>their hook. After working with them for a while, this young man would like 
>to get out, but how to do it while keeping being trusted by somebody else.   
>To communists, after using all of young man's zeal, they would throw    
>them away.                                                            
>                                                                    
>I tell my story not to show my suffering.It is not a suffering, it is a
>disappointment and sadness.
>
>I remember once you could not keep your anger, too.
>
>Regards,

Dear Kim,

  I understand yours and others' concern about some of us "young
and successful intellectuals" -- I hope I am not being pretentious
when I put myself into this category :-) -- being misled by the
communists.  It is a valid concern and I appreciate it.

  However, as I have said repeatedly before.  We simply can not
give up because of past mistakes.  History is useless if we can
not learn from past mistakes, so that we won't repeat them.  Call
me hopelessly idealistic, but I fully intend to find out for myself.
Yes, others may have failed before me, but I can not give up just
because others failed.

  I would like to ask you and others who have had more experience
than me in such things to give me guidance.  Help me by providing
the wisdoms of experience that you have gone through, so that I
may succeed where others had failed (perhaps because they had no
one to help them?).  Help me instead of forecasting so much doom
and gloom.  Advise me of things to look for, signs of deceits, and
so forth instead of chastising me for trying.

  Because after all... I am going to try it no matter what you said.
You can help me and give me a better chance to succeed, or you can
sit back and be a hindrance knowing that you had a chance to help but
did not.

  I am about to be extremely busy with new responsibilities.  I am
the moderator for the new newsgroup comp.binaries.ms-windows.  So
my apologies if I can not continue the interesting discussions on
SCV and APV.  I wish all of you a great new year and many more
productive and constructive discussions.

Regards,
Tin Le
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