The Vietnam War divided a country for twenty agonizing years during the 1950’s to the mid-late 1970’s. It tore apart the cultures and traditions that made a nation, dividing Vietnam into North and South. North Vietnam had a communist government led by Ho Chi Minh. South Vietnam had an anti-communist government that made them a target of political oppression, causing many to flee the country in hopes of escaping the spread of communism. Fear of …showed first 75 words of 909 total…

…showed last 75 words of 909 total…answer to anything, but unity and forgiveness is. The atrocities that occurred to the South Vietnamese may be forgiven, but they are certainly not forgotten, and that is the message that Thich Nhat Hanh is sending in this poem. He states that the true “enemy” is not only within their own people, but it rules them with supremacy. So far to say as the soldiers of the North are disillusioned by political promises and assuran