“There are deaths which make one immortal” — Tran Dinh Van, The Way He Lived: The Story of Nguyen Van Troi Anyone who doubts the murderous nature of American capitalism need only glance at the war in Vietnam.
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    3 years ago

    In 1964 Nguyen Van Troi was a very young Vietnamese electrician from the village of Quang Nam. He was also a communist patriot and member of the National Liberation Front. Trỗi had been married to Thi Quyen Phan only 19 days when he was arrested by South Vietnamese puppet regime troops for attempting to assassinate Robert Strange McNamara.

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    If only he’d succeeded…