THE DONBAS COWBOY
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Folks, today on this raining Sunday morning in Melbourne Australia, I had nothing to do. I could not go out for a usual Macchiato at my favorite local cafe. I clicked at Tremblay Regis Rumble and saw this video. After I’d done watching. I just sat quietly on my chair with my mind traveling back to the War that I lived through in my own former country. To most of people around the world, the Vietnam War lasted 10 years which “officially” started in March 1965, the day the USA thugs and murderers landed at Danang beach South Vietnam.
But for most of the Vietnamese like myself, now an ex-Vietnamese, who is a keen student of history as myself, this war had started even before the battle of Điện Biên Phủ , which ended with the victory of Vietnamese Anti-French Colonialism Resistance Force (a.k.a Viet-Minh abbreviated from Việt Nam Độc lập Vận động Đồng minh Hội) which was a league combined with different anti- French colonialism and for independence Vietnamese political parties. My own late father was a high rank member of “People of Great Vietnam Party” (Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng).
The War was a mixed bag of all kind of stupidity: a fratricidal, ideological, and imperialist proxy war, which all started even before the Vietnamese independence struggle against French colonialism.
The late great composer Trịnh Công Sơn had gotten this War right and accurate as he expressed his conviction in the two of his songs:
“Gia Tài Của Mẹ” -(Mother’s Heritage) in which he charged:
“Twenty years of fratricidal war (Civil war) in every single day” (Hai mươi năm nội chiến từng ngày)
And in this song “Quê Hương Đau Nặng” (Very Sick Motherland) Trịnh also charged that:
Bao nhiêu năm còn nô lệ (After all these years we are still in slavery)
Anh em ta nhận vũ khí (we, brothers all received weapons from foreigners)
Quê ta bãi hoang chiến trường diệt nhau như thú! (Our country has become no-man-land battle field and where we have been slaughtering each other like wild beasts)
Both of these songs made Trịnh the “enemy” of and hated by both sides during the War, even till this day, especially by those are remnants of the South regime!
But I have to digress, for this is a very long and complex (his)story that needs more time to analyze and tell.
This Texas cowboy reminds me of Hugh Thompson Jr. at My Lai. I can see a lot of things in this man which I would agree and disagree, even like and don’t like such as political naivety. Hey, In this world, who is perfect? But the most important thing I see in this man is his strong conviction with compassion and courage.
He really is a fine human being one wishes to have as friend.
It’s just me with my own lens of life folks.
As always, the last word is your, folks.
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