My child, ever you wonder why
April is a mourning time.
Wounding our souls
That have never healed since the day the
Why did you risk your life and leave everything behind?
Listen my child, here’s why
The Commies: the Red Devils of our time. (1)
They took the North and forced their way
Into the South and committed a horrendous human crime.
The cost of war and casualties,
No remorse!
They desperately wanted victory.
We know their true color, lies, and cruelty,
That’s why we fled to the South in 1954
As the country was divided by the
For 20 years, the North had lived in poverty,
Uncivilized and out of reality.
Men and women perished along Truong Son mountain war trail.
The Commies never stopped their desire to dominate the Southeast Asian
countries.
For 20 years, as frontier of freedom,
We protected the people and the country we loved.
We won the battles but not the war,
Because the allies abandoned us for their political
goals.
30 April, 1975 the bitter end finally came,
The country reunited but the people of
They rushed out to the
To escape the revenge and avoid life with the
Commies.
People again suffered and were broken.
Education camp was just a disguised prison.
The small boats swamped the sea.
“Run, run, run …
By all means we must leave.”
Hundreds of thousands reached shore, hundreds of thousands perished.
The world was touched, “Boat
People” in dire need.
The tragedy was unprecedented in human kind,
The Commies did their best to rewrite history and hide their crimes.
Nothing could hide the truth.
The world has finally understood.
Down and out: the Red Devils.
If the people could leave, they all would!
Now you have freedom in your foster land,
Why continue to protest against the Commies gang?
Listen my child,
We must help our countrymen.
Rid the Commies! The Red Devils must be condemned!
People could not speak, we have to,
People could not see, we have to,
People could not protest, we have to,
For the love of our countrymen, we must do.
To the day
The people have human rights and the Commies are defeated.
April will be a month of celebration,
For a long lasting reunification!
Nguyễn P. Thúy, April 20, 2010
(1) The Commies = Red Devils = Communists
(2) The South China Sea should be correctly called the