IT Home Learning T2W10 2010 task 1

Children in the Darkness
by Henry M Bechtold

The author, Henry M Bechtold, was in his hotel room in Saigon just before Christmas 2009 when he wrote this poem. His inspiration came from the news on TV. He was not paying attention to what the news reader was saying but instead, he noticed a photo of a small boy with a helmet and an automatic rifle in the background. The words of this poem suddenly came to him and he typed as fast as he could to get it all down.

Most children during the Vietnam War were usually seen holding toys, but Vietnamese children were seen holding a weapon, for example a gun, to defend themselves. They were constantly fleeing for their lives, thus, they did not had a chance to learn to read, write or dance, before death caught up with them.

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