Continued 
From Hatred to Love   

    
   After the communists were driven out of Hue, people discovered mass graves. TV channels in South Vietnam showed horrifying scenes of grieving families and unidentified corpses, remembers Nguyen Qui Duc, now 59.

   Some of the 3,000 dead were probably intellectuals and teachers, civil servants and administrators who had gone missing. Many had been tied, blindfolded and shot point-blank, or buried alive.
       The massacre is hardly discussed in Vietnam, which continues to tout the Tet Offensive in heroic terms. Tourists visit ancient royal tombs, the Citadel and temples from the Nguyen dynasty, but they aren't shown the massacre sites.
     
   Nguyen's father was released in 1980 and the family reunited in America. 

   Today, the median age is 30 years. Most Vietnamese were born after the war and are not interested in hate. 

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   On the 8th and 9th of last month, in the city where John McCain and other American prisoners were cruelly treated for years, the government permitted Rev. Franklin Graham to hold rallies.

   Thousands of Vietnamese filled an arena, and twice that many stood outside, curious to hear the Gospel.

   The good news hasn't changed. As his father once did around the world, Graham called the audience to repent of sin and accept the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ. Thousands went forward, some in tears, overflowing the space. 

Later, we plan to blog about our massacre,

My Lai, and Lt. Calley today.