Times of Change 3

Farmer Nguyen by W.D. Ehrhart
Massacre at My Lai by Hugh Thompson
A Nun at Ninh Hoa by Jan Barry

What do these two poems and the article say about the impact of the war on the native Vietnamese? Can you think of any other ways in which the war will impact the native Vietnamese?

-These two poems and the article really bring out the true brutality of the war. The insane beliefs that were acted to stop the war, and how the native Vietnamese were crushed physically and emotionally, watching the land the love being torn apart and some of their best friends with it. Imagine. For example in Farmer Nguyen, farmer Nguyen couldn't catch a break, whatever he did for one side, he was punished by the other. This truly shows how Natives were treated. In The Massacre at My Lai a massacre of an estimated 347 unarmed Vietnamese villagers by American soldiers was covered up by the military. In A Nun in Ninh Hoa, a Buddhist nun set himself to flames sitting proudly amid in a solemn, silent crowd. She set herself to flames as a sign to stop the war.