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Brian Burgess GE117 Composition I Zach Hudson 9/14/2010 Linh Dinh’s “ Saigon’s fall, 35 Years Later” April 21, 1975, Linh Dihn , then a young male child the age of 11 and living in the war infested Vietnamese city of Saigon. Dinh turned on his television set and watched the Vietnamese pre attitudent “Nguyen Van Thieu” give a speech on how the United States didn’t keep their promise of “replacing equipment on a one-by-one basis”. Then asked “Is an American’s battle cry relicapable these days?”. Lihn states that even though he grew up in Saigon during the Vietnam War “I did not witness the war, lone(prenominal) the apparatus: tanks, jeeps, jets.” And that he heard the “rhythmic, out-of-breath phouc phouc phuoc of chopper blades rotating over head.” Linh as well says that as for many Americans the parole of the war came via newspaper and news media. “Open a newspaper and you would see Vietcong corpses lying in disarray.” “Turn on the radio and you could hear how are side was winning.



” Dinh says that they considered the “VC” to be “little more than a nightmare , a rumor , a boogeyman for scarring children.” He also speaks of how if soul took a bad photo they would poke fun at each other and say that the person looked like a “VC”. On the evening of April 27 and after staying in an American compound for four days , Dinh’s father was able to send his brother and himself out of the country with the father’s Chinese secretary and $2000.00 U.S. dollars by sewing it into his shorts . They terminate up flying to Guam and the secretary whom Dinh called “Sister Ha” afterward became his stepmother. “Depending on which side your on” Linh states , “Saigon either fell on April 30th 1975 or it was liberated”. If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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