My name is Trin, and this is Saigon.

The story of my family and of the country that shaped us.

The United States will not stand by and allow any power, however great great take over another country

40,000.

There's unnatural excursion that brought only confusion and...

As a man, Mr. President, Votchymy,

without independence, veritable. There can be no president of Timmu, point of peace without independence of

veritable.

There can be no peace without justice, and there can be no justice without peace. In 19355,

A tennis match was played in Saigon's Cirque Sportif.

But it was far from an ordinary tennis match.

It was the final of the Saigon City Championship

and the first time ever of Vietnamese National

had qualified to play against the French champion, Jules Pino.

Only a few years earlier, our French rulers had needed tanks and artillery to defeat a proud Vietnamese resistance demanding independence.

And after gaining victory, they guillotined over 200 Vietnamese insurgents.

But the widespread desire for independence had not been defeated.

It had only been silenced.

And now, behind the genteel mask of a tennis match, it exploded to the surface.

There are two young men in the crowd watching the game, an American and a Frenchman.

They had been childhood friends and had met again after 11 years, that very morning, in fact,

when the American, whose name is Joseph, arrived at the Continental Palace Hotel in Saigon.

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