Dear brothers and sisters,
Near Lunar New Year, the song “This spring I will not come home” usually is sung. The song has its lyric:
“…Innocently children are waiting for
their brothers bringing them new shirts
to show off on the streets three Spring days…”
The song was born in the spring of 1969, in South Vietnam, when our country was at war and the people were suffering. However, 20 years later, in the spring of 1989, in a village of Thai Binh province, 80km southeast from the capital city of Hanoi, the lyric was still correct. The springs around the reunification day April 30, 1975 seemed to be the same. The people’s usual dreams in the new year were to have only a full rice bowl and a new shirt. Continue reading New year, new shirt




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