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Upon reading the novel aft(prenominal) Sorrow, written by Lady Borton, I have realized that my facial expression of the Vietnam War was skewed. Although I didnt live through the Vietnam War unconnected my parents and their peers, I thought I was close enough in suppurate to fully understand what happened during that time in my countries history. This novel gave the account of the Vietnamese War told by the people of Vietnam who lived there during that time. The American soldiers used bombs, napalm, actor Orange and other horrible weapons to kill the Viet Cong. The administration justified the cleanup position of the Viet Cong because they were under the impression that they were all communists. Reading this book described a totally different war, even the name is different. The American War, as the Vietnamese called it, was barely even fought by the Viet Cong guerilla soldiers. In actuality the war was fought in homes and market places by Vietnamese women and children. Anothe r major misconception was that the Viet Cong guerilla forces were stringently communist Lady Borton found that this was largely untrue. After all of the afflictive and disturbing stories told by the Vietnamese in this novel, the fact that Uncle Beautiful cannot level Americans for their suffering. This quote is significant to me because of the obvious unwavering faith Uncle Beautiful has for Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh believed the Marxists view of the distinction between establishment and the people during wars of national liberation. He voiced to the Vietnamese people that the American and Vietnamese people were on the same side and were victims just as much as the Vietnamese were. Minh held that the US government, controlled by capitalists, made bills off of the arms industry and therefore a war would be in their best interests. He made the Vietnamese people master through their suffering and not hold the actions of a few Americans against the total nation. I think it is rema rkable how the Vietnamese could distinguish between the government and people of one nation.