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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.093515.29086@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:35:15 GMT
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- "One evening I walked along Kham Thiem Street where at ten
- minutes past ten on the night of December 26, 1972, a bomb had struck
- every third house; and every day since an old nicotine-stained figure
- had kept a vigil at one of these gaps. His name was Hoang Van Dung
- and he alone survived where 283 died in a crushed block of flats.
- 'We were mostly the old, women and children. There was no time to
- reach the shelters,' he said.
-
- "Then he asked, 'Are you Russian? German?' I said I wondered
- what he would say if I was American. At this, the small crowd that
- had followed me pressed forward to hear his reply. 'If you are an
- American,' he said, 'I shall ask you to inform your presidents that
- before they bomb us again, they should remember that a reed has two
- choices: it must bend or grow stronger. Some of us died, but we did
- not bend. And one other thing. Your presidents should not forget
- about the singing. All through the night we sang. All the children
- and me with my terrible old voice. Singing, you see, is louder than
- bombs.'"
-
- -- John Pilger recounting his conversation with a survivor of Nixon
- and Kissinger's "Christmas Bombing" of Hanoi, 1972 (ibid. *Heroes*
- Sydney: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1986)
-
- From: "Sleep furiously. Dream from the neck down." <M.Lane@sheffield.ac.uk>
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