Ngày 30 tháng 4 nhắc nhở người Việt chúng ta những giờ phút lịch sử hãi hùng lui binh bỏ vùng I, rồi xót xa vùng II, hay nhắc nhở chúng ta những giờ phút lịch sử hào hùng khi những anh em Nhảy Dù, TQLC, BĐQ, Thiết Giáp, Không Quân, Bộ Binh, nhất là Sư Đoàn 18 đã thư hùng tuyệt vời tại mặt trận Xuân Lộc. Hãy kể cho Brian Đòan nghe những huyền thoại nghe về trận đánh Xuân Lộc:
"Mùa Xuân năm 75, khi quân CS tung chiến dịch đánh chiếm miền Nam, thì trận chiến tại Xuân Lộc cho thấy sự đọ sức giữa quân Bắc Việt và VNCH, trong trận thư hùng này, sư đoàn 18 đã anh dũng chống trả kịch liệt sự tấn công vũ bão và quyết liệt của địch quân với quân số 40,000, trong khi bên VNCH chỉ có 12,000, theo tin tức tình báo Mỹ cho biết quân Bắc Việt chịu sự thiệt hại 5000 quân bỏ mạng, và về phía VNCH mất khoảng 2000 quân. Nam quân 1 chọi 4 của Bắc quân. Sự thiệt củua Bắc quân trội hơn gấp 2 lần. Những huyền thoại đó đi vào lịch sử. Như GS Nguyễn Thanh Liêm đã nói, có những huyến thoại chúng ta giữ mãi trong tâm khảm. Huyền thoại về "Danh dự, Tổ quốc và Trách nhiệm" của ngũ hổ tướng sẽ mãi mãi hào hùng, và vĩnh cữu...
Trận Xuân Lộc là nỗ lực hiệu quả cuối cùng của Quân lực Việt Nam Cộng Hòa nhằm ngăn chặn bước tiến của Quân đội CS Bắc Việt trên đường tiến vào Sài Gòn với ý đồ xâm lăng thôn tính miền Nam. Tuy chống chọi trong nhiều điều kiện vô cùng bất lợi cho quân lực VNCH về phương diện tâm lý khi Hoa Kỳ dứt khoát phủi tay, nhưng sức chiến đấu của các chiến sĩ tham chiến thuộc Sư đoàn 18, và các đơn vị tinh nhuệ yểm trợ từ Dù, Thiết Giáp, Biệt Động quân, Không quân, Địa Phương quân đến Nghĩa quân rất dũng cảm, đã chống trả mãnh liệt, một sự chiến đấu kiên cường, đáng ca ngợi cho những chiến binh QLVNCH.
Tiến sĩ Nguyễn Thanh Liêm, cựu thứ trưởng Văn Hóa Giáo Dục gợi nhớ vùng thôn quê miền Nam thanh bình của thuở xa xưa như bức tranh Trăng Thanh Bình của Lam Phương:
"Về cùng vui đêm nay trăng ơi !
Xa cung hằng trần thế chơi vơị
Đêm lắng sầu nhìn lá phai mầu tình lúa trăng ơi !
chan chứa đêm dàị
Lặng nghe dưới sương đêm nhạc tấu khúc tình trăng
say mơ yêu đồng xanh xanh lợ
Mơ màng ngồi nhìn ánh trăng vàng lòng
mừng vui trăng lên huy hoàng."
Này Brian, bạn có thể ngụy biện trốn tránh tội lồi vì bất hiếu, vì tội hỗn láo, vì tội phản bội, nhưng bạn không thể dối gạt lương của bạn. Hãy nghe người CS rao giảng nỗi bất hiếu bạn nhé:
"Xít-ta-lin! Xít-ta-lin,
Yêu biết mấy, nghe con tập nói
Tiếng đầu lòng, con gọi Xít-ta-lin
Ông Xít-ta-lin ôi. Ông Xít-ta-lin ôi,
Hỡi ôi ông mất, đất trời có không?
Thương cha, thương mẹ, thương chồng
Thương mình thương một, thương ông thương mười.’
(Đời đời nhớ ông - Tố Hữu)"
Huhuhu... hết thuốc chữa.
Việt Hải Los Angeles
Farewell my Saigon! (Nam Loc/Si Phu):
http://www.nhaccuat ui.com/nghe? M=e8JSGH23rG
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http://www.latimes. com/news/ local/la- me-saigon- memories30- 2009apr30, 3,5093492. story
Orange County's Vietnamese immigrants reflect on historic moment
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Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times
Liem Thanh Nguyen, a former Vietnamese refugee, stands in front of an exhibit at Cypress College about the history of Vietnamese refugees and the fall of Saigon.
Every April, as the anniversary of the communist takeover of their homeland approaches, they look back -- and try to make sure their descendants know and appreciate their history.
By My-Thuan Tran
April 30, 2009
Thirty-four years after tanks smashed through the gates of Saigon's Presidential Palace, marking a symbolic end to the Vietnam War, the bitter memories still burn among many of the refugees who live in Orange County's Little Saigon.
As decades passed and the memories of war fade with many Americans, community leaders in the largest Vietnamese enclave in the United States want to remind a new generation of the suffering and hardship that took shape on a day they still call "Black Friday."
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Audio Slideshow: Black April
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Fall of Saigon: An article in Thursday's Section A about the anniversary of the fall of Saigon said that Vietnamese community leaders refer to that day as "Black Friday." The community leaders refer to the fall of Saigon and the events related to it as "Black April." —
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Some in the community worry that younger Vietnamese -- fully Westernized and many reconciled with the Vietnam of today -- will forget why their parents and grandparents fled their homeland, that the memories of the communist takeover will slowly dissolve.
To serve as a reminder, a group of community leaders is staging a photo exhibit at Cypress College that captures somber moments -- helicopters lifting people to waiting aircraft carriers, the desperation of the boat people trying to float to freedom, a man dressed in the South Vietnamese military uniform paying respects at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington.
The exhibit, which opened Wednesday and continues today, comes on the heels of a controversial exhibit the college hosted in February by Brian Doan, a local Vietnamese American photographer whose photo of a girl posing with the official flag of Vietnam and a bust of former Communist leader Ho Chi Minh was protested as being propaganda and deeply offensive. Doan argued that he was exercising the very freedom that Vietnamese sought when they came to this country.
Campus officials refused to remove the art but invited community leaders to organize their own exhibit on campus to teach students about the history of Vietnamese refugees.
"I feel saddened that many people do not know about April 30," said Lac Tan Nguyen, president of the Vietnamese Community of Southern California, who organized the exhibit. "They don't know until they listen to us or hear our stories. A lot of people don't understand why we protest and why we feel hurt every time we see the communist symbol."
Nguyen said it has been difficult to pass along stories about the history of the war because there is no natural forum and, for some, the memories are still too painful to share. When the war ended, thousands of former South Vietnamese soldiers and government officials were forced into "re-education camps" or fled the communist government by boat, some perishing at sea.
The photo exhibit, which includes discussions by several refugees, is unique because organizers are reaching outside the sympathetic confines of Little Saigon, home to about 150,000 Vietnamese Americans. Here, three square miles of noodle shops and banh mi stores are spread through Westminster, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana. Dozens of yellow-and-red striped flags of the fallen South Vietnam hang on lampposts, and there is a statue honoring American and South Vietnamese soldiers near Westminster' s City Hall. Street protests still erupt any time someone is suspected of being sympathetic to the communist government.
In the decades since Vietnamese Americans began settling in the U.S., there has been a strong push to have their fallen country recognized. In 2006, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recognized the South Vietnam flag as the official symbol of Vietnamese Americans in California after lobbying by activists. Activists have persuaded officials in cities and counties across the country to adopt similar measures.
Liem Thanh Nguyen, 75, a former cabinet official in the South Vietnamese government, said he feels pride when he thinks of the efforts of Vietnamese Americans to keep their legacy alive. For Nguyen, the memories come back in waves every April.
"There will always be some kind of sadness in my mind," he said. "The memories of my childhood, the life of peace in the village. That makes me feel sad about what happened to my country and my people. I think, why can't we still live in peace and quiet in the countryside? Why have so many things happened that we had to leave my country and go to the U.S.?"
When the war ended, Nguyen believed he would be able to return, hoping that the communist government would fail. But the situation quickly worsened, Nguyen said, and he did not see any future in Vietnam. "There was no hope to go back," he said.
Nguyen, who spoke Wednesday at the exhibit about Vietnamese families that have transitioned to new lives in the U.S., said he hopes the exhibit will reverberate with students who are unaware of the history. The photo exhibit shows images from before the American entry into the war -- of the 1954 exodus of many Vietnamese from the North to the South -- to the end of the war when people fled by helicopter and boats. There are photos of more-recent Vietnamese history, such as the massive 53-day protests against a Westminster video store owner who displayed communist symbols in 1999 and snapshots of dissidents in Vietnam.
"Even some books about the history of Vietnam did not show exactly what happened, so not that many people know about the consequence of the war," Nguyen said. "That makes me feel strongly that we have to try to explain to other people about the situation in Vietnam after the victory of the communists."
my-thuan.tran@ latimes.com
Xem :
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-me-saigon-f,3,5928497.flash
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