Mourning Headband for Hue: An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968 by Nha Ca

Author:Nha Ca [Ca, Nha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Vietnam War, Southeast Asia, Asia, Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Women
ISBN: 9780253014320
Google: KVd_BAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

This chapter is the voice of a young man named Lê who hid in the underground shelter in Phan Bội Châu’s ancestor-worshipping house in Từ Đàm hamlet, on the edge of Hue, where the house of the narrator’s brother Lễ was located.

1. Võ Thành Minh (1906–68) – in some sources his name is spelled Võ Thanh Minh – was a writer and poet from Nghệ An province who spent most of the 1950s in Europe. He was opposed to the partition of Vietnam, became a resident of Hue in the 1960s, and tried to publicize his commitment to reconciling the two Vietnamese countries. During the Battle of Hue, he was killed while trying to help civilians and stop the fighting.

2. Prince Cường Để (1882–1951) was a prominent member of the royal family. He and Phan Bội Châu were early leaders against the French colonial occupation of Vietnam.

3. Prof. Lê Văn Hảo was a Hue University ethnologist who had earlier edited the Struggle Movement publication against the South Vietnamese government of Nguyễn Cao Ký and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. He became the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee in Hue and of the Alliance of Nationalist, Democratic, and Peace Forces in Hue, or, effectively, the mayor of Hue during the Tết Offensive.

4. A reference to the Alliance of Nationalist, Democratic, and Peace Forces, officially set up during the Tết Offensive. It was a precursor to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam formed on June 8, 1969, as an underground government opposing the Saigon government of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.

5. The Vietnamese term for this word denotes a measure of 11.7 ounces.

6. According to the author, it is commonly believed in Vietnam that people who die as innocent victims cannot close their eyes.

7. An alternative name for Lake Geneva.

8. A tropical evergreen tree with milky fruit.

9. An evergreen tree that produces a small juicy fruit with a yellowish-brown exterior.

10. Mr. Lễ, the elder brother of the author.

11. An ancient mansion in Hue.

12. The area where Hue airport is located.

13. A secondary school founded in 1964 and associated with the Pedagogical Institute.

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