I Cried For My Country

About the Book

At last, the Vietnam War came to an end, and the American military involvement in this country was a fiasco. The “Domino” theory of Washington had evaporated, leaving behind a tragedy. The local crisis: getting on the Marxian path after the colonial rule for hopes of a new society in Marx’s dream was also a failure. Violence to control the population failed to last. All causes of war vindicated by the belligerent parties became rhetorical, whereas the ordinary people suffered for decades.

The crisis was primarily against colonialism, and was driven into a succession of foreign intervention in the political conflict among the world powers, leading to the Vietnam War, with all kinds of deadly weapons in modern times. The ordinary people endured death and destruction caused by the war, and mental suppression by the violent ruling systems. The fighting for three generations ended in the turmoil before the Marxian path came around, and people continued to suffer the post-war penury.

About the Author

PHAM, DINH LOC started his journalistic career in Saigon in 1962, as a by-line reporter of the United Press International (1965-1974) and a columnist for Saigon Daily News. He came to the United States as an émigré in 1984, went back to college to validate his background in Philosophy (Bachelor of Arts), and attended the Environmental Biology programme at the Graduate School/Hood College, Maryland. He passed the licensure exam for a registered sanitarian of Maryland and became a state employee for ten years, now retired and living in Washington, D.C.