life: she seemed little and lonely and not even very well.
cared a preat deal about end ie. as also about schools and
‘21s, Sometimes the schools wers underground, sometimes above ground,
ding. Education was a hunrer with the satya the schools continued despite bombing. Their medical s at least devoted in their care of the wounded’ and had learned more srovine their treditionel medicine, They could do nothing for those bur napalm or white phosphorus unless the burns were Slight. Otherwise th ied, Which led us te the bombine. Hew did her children survive the r and steel?
ae
ttle girl is more sensitive," Fadame 5inh
he child. "When she hears. planes she runs
is harder; he waits a minute and Looks at thi
i
sid, and smiled as if to ex-
j y to the shelter. The
erore he goes. But
they mist not be a-
L our children that the bombs cannot kill fraid." Her head was bowed, her voice very low, We know that our sacrifice is necessary. If the bombs do not fall on you, they fall on friends, We accept fate. We are calm, It is useless te be a pessimist One day, we will win a beautiful life, if not for ourselves then for our children. But there will be a whole army of children in Vietnam who will never have a beautiful life: the am;utees, the blind, the mtilated, the orphans, the tuberculous, the small ones who have gone insane." Mademe Binh contimied, "They zn our work animals, the oxen, is thay spray poison on the fields so ple Will sterve or become refugees in the cities, To ravege the countryside is another form of pacification." I asked, would not her people hate Americans for ever? "Nol" Madame Binh said. "No you mst not believe that. My people are touched by all the acts - the smell as well as larce = that the smerioan seopes make against this war. We are really moved, We do Cistinguish between people of goodwill everywhere and governments. We that: the public opinion of the wri has inmerb@bod < us. You see, I wes imprisoned by a French sovernment snd yet I have French friends, »est friends end my people keep a good relationship with the French people to this dey. e do not want hate and war, We want only peace and the right to be independent in our om land."