Ghosts of War in Vietnam (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Kwon Heonik

Author:Kwon, Heonik [Kwon, Heonik]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

Three days later, Bien’s family organized a small reburial ceremony. They prepared a mini coffin, and Ong Chiem and other neighbors offered homemade sweets and small sums of money. Following her request, the coffin was buried underneath an old fruit tree at the periphery of Bien’s family burial ground. It is part of the neighborhood oral history that, throughout the burial, a large number of birds gathered on the tree and sang their songs of happiness. The story continues that three days after the burial, the girl ghost came back to Bien while her parents were away. Ong Chiem confronted the spirit: “This family has been generous to you. They buried you as if you were their daughter. Why are you back?” According to him, Bien then walked to the community well in silence and, as if being pushed by someone, she fell to the ground flat. When she woke up and stood up, the story goes that Bien had forgotten her back pain and has never felt it since.

Lotus Flower sang the following poem on the day of her burial. I quote from the document entitled “So nhat ky cua Lien Hoa” (the diary of Lien Hoa), a record of Lien Hoa’s poems kept by a neighbor of Bien and secondary-school student in Cam Re:

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