Thursday, December 30, 2010

War without winners

There is no winner of war — visit the Museum of the war card blanks, Sai Kung

(Note: the war card track Museum is located in Viet Nam Sai third county Mo Wen Qin Street 28, in kind and the picture shows the Vietnam war era aggressors committed)

Tourism in this country, it is difficult to completely avoid almost the world war.

This outbreak of forty years ago, had a strong earthquake ground motion across the planet, this land of smoke and fire, Kindle has just brighten this everyone on the planet, as well as their eyes full of tears. Today, although it's been a long time, but in the aftermath of the earthquake, but still in this country every inch of the land long rang, circled. A traveler, not need attention, you can find many residue of this period of history. They avoid the call of the time, like ghost ghosts as found in this land, occasionally jump out from a corner, flipping a passerby sensitive nerves. A city, a bridge, or even an ordinary forest, and the war inextricably linked. This field to the name of the war, has been so closely and this country, and it has become to this country an important theme of tourism.

However, for the country's history, I was very careful to avoid a lot of this war is too extensive and direct contact.

Because of this war, for the other side of the ocean, there is no doubt that country is a painful experience. It once you come to this unknown country that can fix with advanced weapons, but didn't think in deeper quagmire, obsessive. It is this war has been over eight thousand forfeits soldier, until the whole opposition to panic, and eventually evacuated a disgrace to the southeast of the jungle and swamp. This is the country most painful history. But from an objective point of view, relative to its competitors, which at best is it's not a long history in an unhappy one chapter. This greed boy, because the coveted next rose, in climbing over the fence at the arm injury, Lonesome scream. He had not been such a pain, so I think this is the end of the world, but it nevertheless showed his ignorance. He did not know that war is not in the local community, another big loss nor overstrain dynamic bone. As long as there is enough time, the pain will slowly healing, he naturally in Kosovo, Yugoslavia, in Iraq again recovered once lost confidence. However, for this war antagonists, the Southeast Asia thousands of years of war, the war, but is it every experience of pain, is covered with it this thick book of the history of every page in the blood of every line. In the United States ' can this land before internal strife, China threat, France's colonial, Japan's aggression, already in his possession to trample on numerous occasions. Each time, are fighting to the death, is life threatening. This little jaundiced and thin middle-aged men, malnutrition, but always face a much more powerful than his rivals, and always full of scars and blood for a tragic victory. Worse, on an enemy has just been evicted, the next enemy is, the wound is still bleeding, he had struggled to get up, face and a more intense struggle. So the war for the win with victory in the country, although it is this victory has three million population of dedication, there are numerous lush forests, fertile farmlands and lush village, as well as more than ten years of valuable time, but in the final analysis, this however is it one of the countless nightmare, but is it countless suffering, countless wounds, one of many disaster. Is the sum of these disasters, instead of the more prominent a, achievement of it today. Excessive attachment to one of them, do not allow for the country's character has an overall awareness.

Moreover, even from the understanding of the war, on the ruins of direct contact, nor on the cruelty of war to get accurate understanding — filled with corpses of trenches have been filled in, soaked in the blood of land covered with grass, even once a formation of the tunnel, now only endless silence — is rendered in front of us, however, is the historical sea beneath a sunken ship without a soul.

Even more frightening is that it may become winners demonstrate martial props. The body is removed, blood smears, has become the battlefield of fresh and beautiful, every corner shot through a heroism of light. Standing here, it seems only natural and easy victory, people watching heroes photos pride Peng Pai, stroking incomplete weapon leisurely longing, no one to imagine that the battle of the chill wind blowing, and no one to calculate this victory of land under how many soldiers buried bones of Sensen.

This is the reason I avoided.

So in hue, I bypass the DMZ Zone, the Vietnam war in the North-South split; the same Mac district in Sai Kung, I avoid the ancient Shiba road, this has let us put fear of the underground Palace. However, this is located at Kung town little Museum, it is very hard to avoid. In fact, in the narrow area of the region, you almost can't not grown with it. From Unity House, along the road, intifada South Chi (Nam Ky Khoi Ngmoi St.) on the two narrow streets, not far away, it does lay in your field of vision. This is a more common than in the yard. Exterior wall light yellow, there is no other enforcers of the courtyard; the gate not style, looks like a temporary structure of scaffolding; even the ticket office is quite subtle, need to go through before they can see. Moreover, even if they went in, its interior, apart from the few open air exhibition of aircraft tanks slightly visible, inside the building, those collections with the war the truest most detailed evidence to be called the Pavilion building, also still be commonplace. In fact, the Pavilion is a common one, some, or even just using simple sheet or asbestos. Everything is so simple, even rudimentary, it was not usually a solemn Museum, old and deep, for a victors of War Museum, it is hard to understand.

This kind of naive perhaps derived from its connotation, originated from inside the large number

This war of data, charts, photographs, models, and real. How can a talented person who performed will care about his experiments in the sense that it does not come from outside, but rooted in the history of a collection inside. There, the war of evidence is carefully categorized and displayed in several different pavilions inside. The Pavilion, which display weapons in kind, with tanks, anti-aircraft artillery, various types of bombs and light weapons; a display of prison torture, that Tiger prison model, there are a variety of instruments of torture; there are startling show the effects of the war, the incompleteness of the baby, distorted limbs, against war brings long-lasting harm human beings. But the deepest impression is the war photographs of the exhibition. These reporters in the field by those photographed of photos documenting this war and one by one the most real moments. Fear of soldiers, helpless, even of gunfire, brutal massacre, scenes, so vivid, so heavy pressure to each face, let his shortness of breath, thought, shocked. He tried to flee, escape the brutal facts, but this one black and white photos as one huge black hole, let him no way back. Thus, in the recent, I face the most dark history of mankind.

These pictures, there are two particularly caught my attention.

A sheet background is gray, lit. This Dim reminiscent of out-of-the-Sun evening clouds in the afternoon, or more accurately, the moment before the storm. In a small rise, half dead wood sloping bevel pointing up. Below is a dead wood, helmet, slightly raised, a rifle, helmet and placed next to arbitrarily. Careless, will think this is the one wearing the helmet soldiers carrying gun squatting in the trenches. However, no one--, helmet here is empty. This discovery so shocking. Their masters? a strong hunch over mind, so direct and cannot be resolved-he, the master of the helmet, the young soldiers, was dead. His light of life, like the dark background, dark, was finally went out. He was perhaps the last killed during a battle, and perhaps a few minutes ago was a cold shot and killed, leaving this blank helmet and guns to this once posture, accept the companion last farewell. Then, the ever living, who is just a New York is a graduate of the University or the son of a Texas farmers? or a descendant of the Indians in New Jersey? all knowing. And, like the hole under the helmet, it doesn't matter anymore. He died, and then advanced weapons and sophisticated equipment, cannot protect a fragile lives in the battlefield.

Another piece, but it is in the fast-flowing rivers, a mother in order to avoid sudden attack, with three children, he fled the scene.

The three children, the youngest only one year old – he was too young to know what happened. In his mother's arms, he stared at the rolling of flowing water, only the tension. Another child, about four or five years old, apparently was aware of earlier land ROAR and what it means to the fire, and he was afraid, not wait for the mother, had cried and cried, rushed forward. While most of the children, about seven years old, but it is the most calm. But this is calmly as numbness more appropriate. This flight, he grew up, has undergone more than once. His childhood spent in fear, no joy, no hope, there is only war ridden fled to make ends meet, in the shadow of death around in. Fear is part of his young soul, cruel fate was prematurely, urging him to taste his precocious, made him numb. He knew that the Center could not change anything, and not in a hurry, just behind the mother rushes. While in the middle of three children and their mothers. Have to admit, even to today's standards, this is also a beautiful face. But let a shocking not her beauty, but her face was circulated that took the kind of determination, as a result of a mother and a fearless, can also be said that she will make her noble and beautiful, a pressing. Her left hand right hand embrace infant, with four or five-year-old child, eyes closely watched ahead — it must be the other side of the River, they fled. Her perseverance in the face is only a belief that regardless of any price, to let children to a safe place to go. Mother to make her forget tired and scared, she worked on. But she also how far? in flames burning of the Earth, which one inch is secure land? in the contend with death, she will support? maybe a day in the morning, a bomb fell on her side, this perseverance in the face becomes an eternal history.

So really grateful as we left behind these photos of field reporters, is that they gave us the most real contact, they risked their lives to the solidification in Flash history.

The bomb be near me bang to fall, at any time from the body, whistling through the battlefield, in that one moment of danger, they overcame the fear, cool lifted camera, with their most professional spirit as we present the works depicting how thrilling. To these works, they have also made tremendous sacrifices — in this war, total 76 field reporter killed or disappeared from the warring sides, but also from other countries. Think about this kind of 76 people and to make their experience and talents combine to form the world's most powerful news media, but they eventually did not live to leave, and to always stay in here. Regardless of whether they were originally intended with how to set foot on the land, whether they are to seek the truth, and morality in the drive, or simply the need to work, they have spent their lives, their courage and their blood, and that the shapes of monumental works, make your own beat to death, has eternal life.

These brave people no doubt deserve the respect of our forever, however, there are more people, they have not been recorded, but did not receive the appropriate attention.

Their considerable identity lowly, the Earth is only a small grass inconspicuous; among them was officials, Warrior, but more of a civilian population; they like dust, in this land is flying, but eventually to silence — they are the three million died in the war in Viet Nam. 3. it is hard to imagine that a war would allow a State gave it one fifth of the population, but that is the brutal reality of war. Imagine that three million people to put their names to itemize, this is a long list of? United States Washington Monument, Vietnam war is composed of two fan like arm as a "V" shaped out of black marble wall, stone wall extends a total of 78 metres above dense moment full of all 57692 United States soldiers killed during the Vietnam war. If Viet Nam is also building a similar monument, then its length is 78 meters, which is four kilometres. — — But, even if there is such a monument, the vast majority of its walls is blank, it is illegible, dark marble smooth like mirror, seemed to have such a small piece of the wall where the spirits never name never true. Sounds ridiculous, but it is more brutal truth — most of the 3 million victims, their names will never know. This can be attributed to the years of war have paralysed the country by household function, but it is equally important – if not more important – these victims in large part, for the entire family to the entire family, the whole village entire villages, even entire cities and towns in the whole town was destroyed, they are the first artillery and aircraft bombed and incendiary bombs and machine gun fire in madness, and finally was heavily armed soldiers block-by-door to jianbiqingye destruction. They themselves were destroyed at the same time, all the relationships, all of them live in this world, but also of evidence has been destroyed.

It is hard to imagine why there is such a cruel massacres, especially in this era, we think that mankind has gone wild.

It happened that made me feel that, despite the progress of human technology is so great, even though we had to fly to the Moon, but human weaknesses inherent in human nature, selfish, greedy, bias, and so on, compared to the thousands of years ago, we did not leave much further. This brutal massacre did not originate from hatred, but from fear: when the soldiers on the battlefield are each other's war scares, when he found the experience of every possible attack on him, his head crashes and his humanity distorted, so he turned into a killing machine without compromise, he would kill every one see Viet Nam, he would have been in a sky-high dying before farmers also rifle, instinctively on a runaway children pulled the trigger. — — However! this is not distorted human nature to the extreme, it's best not to students ' cruel, but an insult to the dead, trampling on human dignity. There is a photograph, "in the Viet Nam revolutionary soldiers cut head, US Army Photo", four United States soldiers sit together, men according to two just cut down of Viet Nam's head, exposing the Devil's smile. At that moment in their mind? monstrous smiles behind what it hides a how distorted human? how can such a cruel and vacate their war actually makes the breed? human depravity spectacle, nothing more than to see that people feel sad.

However, this is war.

The cruelty of war, not only physically destroyed, but also human annihilation, dignity trampled upon. For battlefield side, fear him, make him mad, made him a monster without reason. As for the other party, for the countless generations in the work of the people, for the death of three million people, the situation is miserable. Suffocation, their soul ascended to heaven, but the guards guards them away, and short chisel chisel: topsy-turvy world records, "check this" — for the Earth, they just dream of a group of fuzzy shadows, shot in the war of Flash, and I immediately gone missing. United States people can go to the Vietnam war monument to the fighters besieging them, you can provide them a wreath, can they play funeral music, you can touch the stone wall's name silent cry me, however, that the death of three million people in Viet Nam, their compatriots do? they may be able to find the dead body of the deceased, but cannot say their names. They may be able to bury the dead, on the Earth piled up thousands of new Tomb, but cannot write on the tombstone of a Word. These dead people, behind even that basic rights denied to! their names nobody knows, and their individual is no longer important, their death finally rolled into a cold figures — 3000000 — three million! this is their sum, and that is the sum of all their lives, that is they all laugh, all sweat, all hope, as well as the sum of all suffering. However, this sum, but is just a three syllable, but is a wanna be a second movement, which they have any meaning? — war claimed their bodies that Bale, why more brutally kills them after death of dignity?

So I understand that the eyes this tiny white Museum why so ordinary, understand why it is no point to crawl winner of publicity.

Because of this war without winners, all of them are victims. Aggressors, regardless of whether it owns how advanced weapons, regardless of motive is how justice whitewash, or whether it has been used in other people's land of rampant long before its final result only one, that is, with the defeat of humiliation. No flowers on the way back, without a smile, but peer cold body — that is to their tyranny must pay the price, it would also like to pay for many years to repent — if it knows how to repent — as interest. But this land of the people, these people away the aggressors, these innocent people, their victory, but no winner fun. They won the war, the war has claimed all of them, it took family, older youth, burning forests, a barren land. They thought it was a victory, but in the end, they really are, however, is the endless suffering. This painSo deeply, and they cannot be in the weeds of diffuse hygiene passionate colours in the same way before, and extensive land proudly looked up — so this Museum, only so simple even simple features exist. It exists, not because it won the war, but because it was burdened by humans — no matter who or United States Viet Nam — pain. Like the guy on the cross, and bore all the sins of mankind, so humble ringlets a noble head, this small museum, where it crawl — it must crawl — to an injured person's attitude, as numerous in this war fallen people, lay flat, with a strong and firm voice, telling people all come on recalls the significance of this period of history —

"Today, looking back, not to stir up hatred, but rather to learn from the lessons of history, so absolutely no longer let war in Viet Nam homeland again, do not let it go in the us on any corner of the planet.

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