Vietnamese literature, history, and culture pretty much revolve around war (unfortunately and fortunately at the same time) and the love that transcended through war.

Why don't you continue with the ending?

The guy dies in the battlefield and the girl raises the child.

Didn't you take this picture from some Spratly thread?

When I look at that picture, it reminds me of the play "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare. Because they love each other, they do not let the hatred of the families, Capulet and Montague, to poison their love.

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

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A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punishèd;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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North Vietnam, controlled by the Trinh Lords, and South Vietnam, controlled by the Nguyen Lords, fought each other for many hundred years. More recently, the Viet Nam Cong San in Vietnam and Viet Nam Cong Hoa abroad are still at war with each other. If we Vietnamese do not learn how to love each other like Romeo and Juliet, this Vietnamese curse shall continue to haunt us until infinite tomorrow.

yea

Perhaps it takes blood drawn from our holding hands to make us realize how important unity actually is, like how Montagues and Capulets had learned it.

A good thread like this has been ruined by SoCal.