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Vietnam's Memories
That Summer
"After a heavy rain this morning, Hanoi is bright with golden sunlight..." Nguyen Binh
There are four seasons at Hanoi.
However, with most people live there, summer is a special one with many feelings.
The summer heat has grown mild thanks to the deep blue lake located at the center of the city.
To stay away from the heat and moreover, to be romantic, couples go to Windy Shop
It is a tea shop next to Bay Mau Lake, which is perfect for declare one's love to somebody.
Actually, at the most tense time of Aerial Bombing Campaign
when American had been threaten that they will bring Hanoi back to Paleolithic age
Hanoi citizen never left the habit drinking black ice-coffee at along-lake-side shops.
That is what the summer of 1973 was.
And now Hanoi is still all the same.
Going to lakeside is not for hiding from the heat, sometimes it is a way to get used with the heat.
I am Le Van Quy
In that past, summer heat is not like now.
Mr. Le Van Quy - Hand-craft man at Sword Lake The poor stay away from the heat by going to the lake corner has plenty of wind
Such as Trang Thi corner or here, they came to feel cool, they sit and ate ice-cream
They are the ones Mr. Quy has told at 1973
but that's what elders choose, children has more interesting ways.
Mr. Le Khac Hung - Live at Hang Dao St. My house is just 50m away from the lake, it is very close
Both happy and sad memories are close to this lake, I went fishing at the morning
and went swimming with my friends at noon, I was very young at that time.
The summer of 1973 at Hanoi, the peaceful and green spots re-created
As if it never had a fierce winter just past 6 months.
The victory of Dien Bien Phu in Air Battle gave the signal of a new step of the Great Resistance.
And the youth generation will end this long-term resistance war with glorious victory in the very near future.
But at that time, of course, no one sure that the unification day is just 2 more years.
the peaceful had been the most simple thing in life
It was just like a family going out eating ice-cream in that summer.