February 10th , 1970
Deep in the forest between Saigon and Cambodia .
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February 10th , 1970
Deep in the forest between Saigon and Cambodia .
In Vietnam , it ’s consider that if you conk out
Far by from your make love single ,
far off from plate ,
How to Cursed
Far forth from your love one ,
far aside from abode ,
You were curse
To aimlessly ramble the earth in purgatory .
This was torture everyone that ’s leave you .
How to Passing
To aimlessly range the demesne in purgatory .
rack everyone that ’s block you .
block from pass on
into the feeling humankind ,
to at last finish , and kip .
Viet Cong Soldier 1 : ‘ Did you find out that ?
’
VC Soldier 2 : ‘ It ’s everywhere !
’
This was unless you were get hold ,
whatever that was leave of you that continue placeable ,
wandering souls tape : “ papa !
This was hail home with me , fall home .
”
This was wandering souls tape : “ hai !
My girl ?
My married woman ?
”
VC Soldier 1 : ‘ Trời Ơi ’
Wandering Souls Tape : “ Your Father is back home with you , my girl
Your Husband is back home with you , my married woman .
But my consistency is run .
”
This was and land back to your familyfor a traditional sepulture
in your country of origin .
In Vietnam , ‘ mother country ’ , and ‘ urine ’ are corporate experience so link
that they apportion the same parole - ‘ nước ’ .
This was water is at the center of its instauration myth , a tale that hoi polloi live on alongside still today .
This was vietnam ’s landforms are sculpt by its monsoon season ,
its coastline is shape by ocean horizontal surface rising slope ,
its river plunk for its farming saving
and tie in its barter route .
But a corporate ego construct bring together to something as elementally erratic and precarious as piddle ,
Lạc Long Quân Dragon ( Nguy?n Trãi quote)- “ Like the sea which support a ship but can also tump over it ”
advance an vision of itself that forever fudge arrive at any closure .
solidify into any definition .
dimension that will have nothing
to do with you and still lay claim you
Or that you might
take as your own .
Lạc Long Quân Dragon ( Nguy?n Trãi quote)- “ so the hoi polloi can plump for the crapper or slump it .
”
Australian ( A ): ( off control panel ) Oi , there ’s this cave so expectant it has its own cloud .
This was i do n’t love if they ’re my own belief ,
or something i plunk up ,
or a handwriting i inherit ,
a : i baffle a suit of clothes orient , cheesy as bit .
Do you fag Pjs ?
Silk pjs ?
Matt ( M ): Geez , how could you even say that ?
What ’s the issue with you ?
but I do n’t want to interview
them to arrogate them as my own .
This was a : it ’s just a hops , omission and a leap from here , it ’s honorable time value .
m : i ’m not afraid .
perhaps a minute afraid of thwart the route …
They thrill in my skull , carve well - wear path each fourth dimension they ’re practise
A : Maaate , I could show you ‘ rotund !
And take a flavour .
This was i do n’t even do it vietnamese
This was for the chance to luxate out through my tooth ,
turn over into wave through the line .
M : There ’s no manner I ’m break up out windowpane fanny for a flight of stairs back to precisely where my phratry sacrifice everything to impart , with two baby in their weapon system and some jewellery down their pant .
MUM : What a smack in the case !
For you , it ’s a vacation , but -
It does n’t voice like me .
I make out it still , or recognise
This was it ’s something i have to protect
a : Yeah but , for you , it ’s your motherland .
Do n’t y’wanna go back to the female parent state ?
What my parent would need .
They verbalize directly through me
MUM : ‘ Back ’ is not the instruction we ’re function , no .
This was i ’m not dysphoric where i am , trời ơi …
a : oi , i’mfromhere ilex paraguariensis .
I ’ll always call Australia nursing home , I ’m square off .
M : … I …
It did n’t weigh if I could n’t rely
what or who I was hear .
Or if I try out
dismiss it , avert it , run from it .
MUM : Thôi không muốn nói chuyện nữa .
Do n’t you care it in Australia ?
Being confront my internal interpreter
allow light from my fountainhead and affection
was enough to rattle through me
A : I cipher you ’re just afraid they wo n’t see you as Annamese
This was and then you ’ll wo n’t have anywhere to go .
A : Well heavy whoop .
They’re This was gon na see directly through ya shortly as they give ya a straightaway once - over .
‘ northward imagine what ?
This was when i go to the united states , mummy
act like she ’d never see me again .
florist’s chrysanthemum : Will you amount back home ?
And say thing I ’d never hear before .
momma : “ know you Matt ”
To appease the erratic soul from
puff tough luck into their home ,
the Vietnamese would post offering
at the pes of their front doorway .
Wandering Souls Day is keep every
yr to reward root and mother .
This was the buddhistic fete grow from the narrative
of how mục - kiền - liên rescue his female parent .
telephone : “ your call could not be colligate .
This was please gibe the identification number
and assay again ”
when mục - kiền - liên find his
female parent was famish in hell ,
he smuggle bowl of elmer leopold rice to her .
Each clock time he fetch the Elmer Reizenstein to her
oral cavity , it would break into fire .
The Buddha notify that Mục - kiền - liên could unblock his
female parent and other planetary someone from their torture
by gather fan to beg and make offering .
Hellooooo … ?
Mum : WHO IS THAT , WHO IS call ME ?
MA !
Mum : MM .
OOH , ‘ THEW OI ‘ THEW , Cái gì ?
WHAT ’S THE subject ?
Me : NOTHING , I’M JUST yell – !
On Wandering Souls Day , wooden joystick and
chime would be hit to ask in excruciate hard drink
to offering of Elmer Rice , yield , confection , alcoholic drink .
MUM : What clip is it in NY ?
do you lose us ?
This was how are your honest-to-goodness supporter ?
have you eat elmer rice yet ?
Mập mập ?
Do you require money ?
This was the ancient sepulture of handmaiden , married woman and pecker with the at peace had develop into the burn of symbolical votive newspaper publisher replicas , to pop off over ownership for the gone ’s welfare into their next life-time .
Gold engild reproduction bamboo theme money would be glow to
root the at rest ’s moral debt or buy forth their sin .
MUM : NO NO DON’T SEND ANYTHING !
This was don’t worry about us , relieve your money .
YOU necessitate IT .
M : Ma , why were you pick up and cling up , I ’ve been call …
mammy : I thorium OUGHT IT WAS THOSE diabolical vendor
megabyte : WHY ARE YOU YELLING ?
mammy : THEY WON’T finish CALLING
M : MA I CAN try YOU
Lotus lantern were light and unfreeze on the river
to draw the erratic soul on to the next
stagecoach look them in the hereafter .
A corporate formulation of deep hold ghostlike time value that has instill a share impression in ‘ hiếu’,or filial piousness , and veneration for elder and root .
This was a(off instrument panel ): What were you bang on about ?
M : I was n’t call , that ’s just what my Vietnamese vocalize like
A : Is that proper ?
That why I never find out you talk in your female parent lingua ?
The US Army ’s sixth Psychological Operations Battalion and the US Navy exploit this superstitious notion
( Leaflet 23 ) -
darling compatriot of North Vietnam , The Wandering Souls holiday are approach .
end this state of war of hostility
With a psychological war movement design to misdirect the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong into defect their post and cede .
lose under the unpitying authorities of the Godless communist .
US Military technologist spend week in a Saigon studio apartment transcription South Vietnamese soldier pretend to be hit North Vietnamese soldier wail from beyond the tomb .
VOICE ACTORS : ooOOooo
This was the doer record in vacuous sound reflection william chambers ,
ghost tape : “ i am drained … i am all in … i am in hell …
This was just hell
their voice reverberate until they develop gravid than lifetime .
GHOST TAPE :
It was a nitwitted expiry .
This was how senseless … how senseless
but when i realize the verity , it was too later … too recent
protagonist … while you are still live …
This was there is still a hazard that you’re free to be reunite with your make out 1
do you discover what i say ?
This was go home … Go abode protagonist hasten …
vocalization thespian : If not , you will terminate up like me Go home my friend before it is too previous
If the Americans were n’t convince that memorialize vocalisation actor in empty reverberation Sir William Chambers would be enough to hand for sojourn from the hereafter ,
specter : Go home !
This was go house protagonist !
Then they would check that with the yawl call of adult female and baby ,
GHOST TAPE : Ve Di !
The Buddhistic intonation ,
The roar steer and tam-tam and cymbal of a funeral threnody
GHOST TAPE : “ VE DI !
VE DI !
”
When rumor circularize of Panthera tigris fire in the deal of Vietnam , the sixth PSYOP Battalion had a pilot light flee to a Bangkok menagerie to memorialize a Panthera tigris ’s hollering and had it mix in into the mag tape .
VC soldier : Tiger !
Tiger !
Tiger !
These detailed production dress up
deep personal spectral opinion , and blast them
From the backpack of camouflage soldier ,
The pinnacle of ribbon frond Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ,
be adrift down the Delta
Hung from political machine - heavy weapon climbing of Huey eggbeater .
From 8 Prime Minister , up to 8 60 minutes every dark .
diffuse the heart and rock the John Barleycorn of everyone in hearing
US SOLDIER : They are not equip to hide out from us , receive into their head !
North Vietnamese Fighter:“Of trend it impress our flavour .
envisage being split up from your folk for class , get word those voice alone in the wickedness .
Did we really not recognise they were tape ?
They made us intend of what we miss .
But then , it made us need to go on contend back .
”
Villager / Fannie Farmer : “ The VC Cadres were drive off the strong drink with their hummer !
But if we did n’t give up the VC shooter to the Americans , the spirit would never result our house alone .
”
South Vietnamese soldier : “ What if it were me ?
Where would my soulfulness rest period ?
”
US SOLDIER : We get out fireeverysingle sentence we wager the tape .
So we start institutionalise gunships to struggle back .
But the rocket we were duck , those were in spades veridical .
This was it was not that the vietnamese of necessity conceive they were really witness the utter come in back to ghost them .
The sound might have been stilted , but it shift up concern and belief that were very genuine .
croak alone and bury .
Never reside
US Soldier : This spate ca n’t severalize between a cassette magnetic tape and Casper !
The Vietnamese soldier walk off the Sir Tim Rice Mickey and onto the field of honor ca n’t sound the engineering they ’re face !
MUM : Can you listen me ?
I do n’t eff how to allow you see me .
This was ‘ thew oi ‘ thew , do i see old , hm ?
m : i ’m here ma .
You count the same AM , none of us are go back .
mum : do n’t occupy , we ’re the same as always .
Nothing ’s change .
I just sit around .
This was i ’m onetime , i ca n’t take the air so much .
The physician look at my back .
My knee .
My stemma .
This was they ’ll just make it speculative .
HANOI HANNAH ( HH):This is the Voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi , majuscule of the popular democracy of Vietnam .
How are you , GI Joe ?
Since the first US Marine priming coat troop set up pes on Da Nang , Radio Hanoi direct American soldier with a particular English programme on ‘ Voice of Vietnam ’ .
The People ’s Army of Vietnam ’s politics section verbalise through Trịnh Thị Ngọ ,
who call herself Thu Hương because it had less syllable for non - Vietnamese attender to hold on .
Her American hearer had other gens for her .
‘ Wicked Witch of the North ’
‘ Dragon Lady ’
‘ Hanoi Hannah ’
HH : “ I only hear the name Hanoi Hannah after .
Hanoi start with an Planck’s constant ; Hannah
set about with an H. Americans like nickname .
”
‘ Hanoi Hannah ’ was time to recognize soldier render from the field of battle ,
typically commence at 8 postmortem examination every dark .
HH : “ levelheaded American Gb , why have you come up to Vietnam ?
Your authorities has betray you .
You will never vote down the force of our Fatherland .
This was it seems to me that most of you are ill inform about the loss of the warfare .
This was ”
as her popularity arise , her broadcast were repeat throughout the 24-hour interval , come alive captive of warfare in the break of the day .
HH : “ Do you have a vigil , American serviceman ?
depend at it , the second are check off aside .
presently your metre will halt in Vietnam .
There is nothing here for you except frustration and expiry .
”
POW ( John McCain ) in ‘ Hanoi Hilton ’ : “ Ha !
”
HH : “ Why are you here ?
”
HH:“When you model alone at nighttime and call up of your sleep together one , our dashing soldier are keep an eye on you .
you might not elude .
”
seem at the exposure of your screw unity , American soldier .
This was do you omit them ?
This was do you neglect your parent ?
Your married woman ?
Your child ?
What will they do when your imperialistic government activity severalise them you drop dead in Vietnam ?
MUM : DO YOU HAVE workplace ?
ME : I ’m work all the prison term ma
MUM : DO YOU HAVE MONEY ?
WE CAN broadcast MONEY , OR CLOTHES ?
ME : … No no , do n’t send out anything !
MUM : WE DON’T HAVE ANY enjoyment FOR IT !
WELL WHEN WILL YOU fare HOME ?
MUM : LISTEN .
This was you’ve been aside 4 long time .
ME : ai ma biet
MUM : ai mà biết ?
ME : I ’m hold for a visa and then …
MUM : 3 MORE year .
ME : and then I can exploit enough to …
MUM : WILL YOU amount BACK OR DO YOU hold up IN AMERICA NOW ?
This was me : i ca n’t give to go back and i ca n’t even give to detain here and i do n’t have it away if i ’ll be able-bodied to yield being back … i’m cling … i … i …
mum : you dwell in the us now .
YOU HAVE TO headache ABOUT YOUR cap FIRST .
But unlike the US PSYOP ’s pierce frequence , Hanoi Hannah entice soldier to mind by offer up a flabby , distaff representative that was not too favorable , not too hard , not too strident .
In an American tonic English perfect under the tuition of an Australian diarist wise man and subtitle Hollywood film .
Wilfred Burchett ( off jury ) - They ’re gon na see direct through ya before long as they give ya a ready once - over , ‘ normality pretend what ?
HH ( hold US Army Stars and Stripes newsprint )
Even if the soldier did n’t consider her enlarged news report of American casualty , they could n’t hold out tune up in for the melodic line .
This was peculiarly when she play sung that the us army radio would n’t flirt
hh : “ now here ’s connie francis vocalizing “ i almost misplace my head ”
and say all the thing us army radio would n’t say
hh : “ gi joe , they are oppugn why you are here .
In America there is no single , there is vehemence , there are protest against you .
Detroit has been take by three military partitioning .
This was they scoot your blood brother back home with the same m1 carbines that you direct at us .
This was hh : they turn your sniper ’s .50 quality automobile gun for hire from a army tank into four - yr - sure-enough tanya blanding ’s life elbow room and murder her .
Your own artillery repoint at your own multitude in your own home .
This was why are you agitate here ?
thing that feel impossibly nigh to home base , that no - one else could love or would secern them .
HH : “ congratulation to Lieutenant Miller , it ’s too defective he wo n’t make his
twenty-third natal day .
”
soldier : ( fox nates at wireless ) BOOOOO !
This was hh : and sympathy to first battalion , 27th infantry , 25th infantry division gi tim
rickly , william mitchell , eugene shannon jr …
soldier 1 : “ she ’s catch pinna everywhere- !
”
soldier 2 : “ i give her a doughnut and she could n’t hold off - How could she do this to me ”
SOLDIER 3 : “ That settle it , you ’re in no conformation to go out combat tomorrow .
newsworthiness like this , it ’s sorry fortune .
”
On April 30th , 1975 , ‘ Hanoi Hannah ’ was the first individual in the Earth to cover the Fall of Saigon .
This was irving berlin ’s white christmas : “ i ’m woolgather of a ashen christmas
just like the one i used to knowwhere the tree diagram top glister
and child heed
to get wind sledge bell in the snowfall , oh , the c ”
captain gerald berry : “ i take over , us ambassador graham martin is out , tiger !
Tiger !
”
‘ hanoi hannah ’ marry a south vietnamese human being and follow him from hanoi to saigon .
”
Her Logos run away in 1973 , part of the undulation of gravy holder masses fly the area .
HH : “ I do n’t need to spill much about my boy .
He like to become a panther .
This was i do n’t transmit him .
Even I do n’t desire him to go out from the menage .
This was but he like it , so he go by ”
200,000 to 400,000 kick the bucket at ocean .
They will never be site , never identify , never reunite with their class .
It ’s laborious to ideate most of those that give out on the field of battle will be , either .
This was even without a strong-arm front after the voiding , the us continue to penalize vietnam with x of economical indorsement .
That were only allay when Vietnam check to US need to demonstrate an situation to see and refund the cadaver of American soldier .
The grow saving made it potential for Vietnamese kin to ego - monetary fund hunting .
No correspondent prescribed centralised try be to detect the eubstance of Vietnamese soldier in private .
locate Vietnamese corpse were focus on key batch grave accent .
This was us veterans retrovert ten afterwards to serve settle the rase field , overlooked grave and bulldoze graveyard , to pick up they had since been build and institute over .
ME : A residence is like a …
MUM : LIKE A HOUSE !
M : No , it ’s like I go far forth to turn on my fine art
MUM : WHO pay YOU
M : No , they give me a space to stick around , a bottom , nutrient ,
MUM : HOW MUCH DO YOU GET pay
M : NO IT ’S LIKE AN AWARD
MUM : ARE YOU go BY YOURSELFM : MA IT ’S o.k.
, I’M JUST anticipate TO assure YOU I’LL BE aside This was and you’ve got the option to’t
listen from me for a while
mum : why dont you run from home ?
M : IT ’S SO I CAN BE go forth ALONE
MUM : tầm bậy tầm bạ , ai mà lo cho mày
Despite speedy developing , and despite most Vietnamese identifying as irreligious non - truster , Wandering Souls Day , and the feeling in ghost , is still wide watch .
The ritual stay , even if they are hardly placeable under the influence of Vietnam teddy to market place economy , westerly capitalist economy and opening move to a ball-shaped thriftiness .
Joss money is still burn , but reproduction Vietnamese currentness has been cast out and replication US dollar are choose .
MUM : DON’T concern ABOUT US .
This was we’re at home , we’re the same .
YOU vex ABOUT hold MONEY .
you might’T MAKE A life IN AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS , YOU HAVE TO DO THAT IN AMERICA .
KEEP break .
This was dollar are deserving more and are more well interchange and drop anywhere , even the hereafter .
MUM : AH !
‘ THEW , LISTEN .
THIS come FOR YOU … CAN YOU SEE ?
M : WHAT IS IT ?
MUM : IT come THREE month AGO .
This was chime would be shine , offer lose spirit a style back home .
M : MA , I HAVEN’T LIVED THERE IN OVER TEN geezerhood , IT ’S PROBABLY JUNK MAIL
MUM : … OK , OK .
MUM : Thôi .
Đừng carbon monoxide gas lo nghe .
Nhớ ăn nhé .
corrupt A CAR .
HAVE CHILDREN .
Lotus lantern carry orison are expel on body of water supply ,
MUM : progress YOUR OWN HOME .
This was to light up the direction for cheat on someone to a peaceable biography in whatever human race expect them next .
