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363-04835.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04835
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Title
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Viet Cong Wedding in the Jungle
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about the marriage of a Việt Cộng soldier and nurse, page 2
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Date
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1965, Nov. 22
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Subject
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Mặt trận dân tộc giải phóng miền nam Việt Nam; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Women; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, Vietnamese (Republic); Families of military personnel; Nurses; Military nursing
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Location
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Bình Dương, South Vietnam
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11.2164; 106.6579
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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
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extracted text
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NEWS PERSPECTIVE
.Viet Cong Wedding
By Beverley Deepe
A Special Correspondent
BINI{ DUONG, Viet Nam.
The bride wore the black
pajamas of a peasant; the
bridegroom looked resplendent
in his khaki uniform decorated
with the insignia of commander of the village -guerrillas.
The 22-Year-old bride received only a few handkerchiefs from her feHow Viet
Cong nurses; the 27-year-old
bridegroom received "best
wishes" from his Viet Cong
subordinates and superiors.
The bride and bridegroom exchanged photographs of eac;h
other, "but we had no money
and only gave each other
souvenirs."
The godmothers of the Liberation Army fighters served
sweet cakes, candy and tea
during the dusk-to-midnight
celebration; the bridegroom's
Viet Cong commander-a political cadre-talked with the
bride's commander-a doctor
-and they a,greed. the marriage was on, the bride's
mother and . the bridegroom's
54-year-old father .also a,greed
and the celebration rolled on
until midnight.
·
The two Viet Cong superiors
of the bride and bridegroom
verbally ipronoµnced them
married and "it was generally
aiccepted we were married."
•
in
the Jungle
THE WAR-TORN _F ABRIC of Vietnamese iife
forces peasant women, like this one fleeing her
horne iJi Bau Bang village with her children, to
change their entire lives. In this second of five
articles, Herald Tribune Special Co1·respondent
Beverly Deepe interviews a forrn er Viet Cong
nurse, who tells how her initiation into the guerrilla forces changed her life.
to liberate the country ,and so
on. I was So happy. I wasn'·t
afraid. There were so many
people. lik,e· me,.....it was fun.
"In 1960, the Viet Cong village executive committeeman
asked me to 'struggle'-this
involved seven or eight villages and if everyone from
all these villages converged at
one time there would be · 7,000
to 8,000 people. I was :flattered by the Viet Cong. They
had demonstration banners'down with' ... and 'long .live'
. . . I didn't make any banners, but one man who did
was arrested; the executive
committee told me and another girl to go to the government district center compound
to ask for the release of the
man. We ·got In; the. one girl
was badly beaten, but I wasn't.
"The man was released.
After the success of this,
many thousand people came
to a big meeting-there
weren't enough seats for them
all to sit on-I and the other
'girl got the seats of honor
and they gave us a big ovation
because the man was released.
The crowd was in the thousands. This was In 1960when the military struggle
against the Saigon government began.
MARRIAGE
RETURN
At midnight, the bride returned to treat the Viet
Cong woundedi and tJhe bridegroom returned to his village
to . co:mtmand his guerrma
units. It was one week before
the young people could see
each .other and spend the
night t,ogether-and then only
with permission of their commanders.
The eyes of Mrs. Nguyen
Van Long twinkled as she recalled her wedding in the
jungle village of Phu My
Hung, on:Iy 20 miles northwest
of Saigon, and two miles from
a large government training
-center. Her husband explained
that "it was love at first
sight," but the marriage · in
the fall of 1963 was arrangedi
In traditional Vietnamese
fashion through an elder
mediator. Mr. Long, sitting in
a Vietnamese government reeducation center, explained:
"My father :Introduced me
to the Viet Minh (the proCommunists
fighting
the
French during the French
Indo-Ohina War) fa 1947 and
when I was nine years old I
1b ecame one o·f their liaison
boys; I stayed witih them until
1954 when the war ended.
After that, I remainedl in the
Ho Bo jutllgle (a renowned·
Communist stronghold for
d~a~e~ ~ u!1t~!. ~~_
a_o,. !-'.~e!1 _\Ve
"One day I was on a mission
with two of my men; afterwards we dropped in t,o see the
12 girl nurses at the hospital
and I saw this one nurse and
I told my two guerr111acomrades she's a very nice girl.
The others said, 'If you love
her why don't you push on
and get her?' I replied: 'All
right, I shall try.'
"My comrades advised me
see an elder villager and ask
for his help to arrange the
marriage. I took a 10-pias11re
(ten cents) tea package w};en
I went <to the eider's home an.d
told him the problem. The
elder found out about nurse's
background and told her, 'You
know that young man-he's in
love with you. What about
you- do you love him?'
told the elder 'yes.'
"So both of us put in d ly
typed our requests to our iet
Cong commanders. Then I as
sent on a two-week missi n
.and she was also on 1a not er
mission. When we bothiturned, her commander
d
my commander got toget er
with the village elder . . .
and a private meeting of he
girl I loved and myself as
to
i
background of each other and
then we decided firmly to get
married. We both got approval
from our commanders. We set
a date; I typed out 10 invitation cards and she -typed out
25 invitation cards, but I also
verbally asked 15 others to
come to the wedding-so about
50 people came.
Mrs. Long, brighter and
more politically conscious than
her husband, explained why
she joined the Viet Cong and
what she did for them:
"In 1961, when I was 18,
I was recruited and sent to
a medical training school for
three months ; I did so well
the Viet Cong sent me to
Ho Bo jungle base for six
months' training under a surgical unit. That's where I
met my husband.
Asmed Wh'Y sihe joined tlhe
Vii.et Cong, she talked excitedly, her eyes sparkled as
,tJhouglh slhe ha,d spun int,o a
new exciiting world:
"The Viet Cong from the
viUage executive comm1ttee
g,ave me the propaganda line
that 1Jh:is is a feucml socie·t ythat we !had to stiand up and
In the autumn of 1963, she
married the village guerrilla
commander. Based in separate villages, they received
permission from their Viet
Cong superiors to see each
other three times during the
following 18 months:
"If we wanted to see each
other, we would put in requests for seven days leave
every three months," her huslband explained. "Generally we
got only two or three days'
leave instead of seven. The
first time I got leave to see my
wife was for our honeymoon.
The second time was almost
a year later when our baby
was five days old.
"Then we talked of defecting, from the Viet Cong, but
we didn'.t have the means."
(Significantly, an American
B-52 raid in the Ho Bo jungle
killed three of Mrs. Long's
medical associates, including
her doctor-siuperior.)
"The third time I saw her
our baby Thao (Herb) was five
months old; I told my wife,
'we have a family now, we
can't go on like this . We had
better give ourselves up to the
government. We have nci future with the Viet Cong.' " ·
On July 21, this year, the
young married couple walked
two k'ilometers to a, district
town and caught a bus to this
Vie't namese government pro_ . : ___ t _ ,
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