HEMINGWEIRD

About the Book

             Tony Hemingweird, the underclass citizen of an America gone awry, is an antiwar author who translates the personal vendetta in Iraq into a version worse than the Vietnam nightmare: Iraq invasion instead of pursuit of alQaeda network means opportunity once in a lifetime the Triple E (exploitive elected elite) can do to achieve their personal gain. In fact, personal gain has made communism the worst ideology beyond Carl Marx’s and Ho Chi Minh’s imagination. For personal gain, Hanoi Inc.’s collective leaders have turned Ho’s hard-earned victory into a dynasty of harlotry and panhandling.

            America’s leering face of wartime criminally has not started with that private first class who deserves jail term. The world has been such arrogant face long before the war even starts, in late January ’01 to be exact. Why should a PFC abuser be punished for doing what she’s been trained to do? A “poor freaking civilian” who goes to war to cover her school bills cannot make a mess of an unprovoked country – ruining America’s ideals and values.

            Winston Churchill said, “Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The stateman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given he is no longer the master of policy, but the slave of unforeseenable and uncontrollable events.”

            The WW II postwar alliance and the United Nations that America helped structure and systemize is dead. It died the day Pope John Paul II warned: “US victory in Iraq is defeat for humanity.” The trillion-dollar folly in the traditions of American ideals and values? The Marshall Plan, for instance – the European Recovery Program 1947-52, named after its originator, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who said: “Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.”

            The Vietnamese did pay a dear price for democracy – political farce, to be exact. It costs a lot more for the Iraqis. Democracy is government by the people exercised either directly or through elected representatives. Rigged elections with tanks backing the polls, what kind of democracy is it? Bogus democracy means the beat goes on and on forever. History repeats itself, but it’s obviously not worth learning.

            Fact is, no “miserable failure” can blunder without standing ovation; the louder the standing ovation the broader the post-traumatic stress disorder among troops making it home. The latters are those who see the real thing without clapping. Which those who think they’re doing the right thing do not see. In other words, those really at fault are the ones who sent the wrong message to the White House, who gave birth to the trillion-dollar folly. Anyway, future generations would redefine who’s right, who’s wrong. Justice may be delayed but should not be denied.

            This is the story of how an immigrant underdog views patriots and politicians in America after a decade enjoying his American dream, plus his recurrence to the Vietnam dilemma, which he thought he could experience only once in his lifetime. But he was wrong. Sadly history repeats itself. Thank God in America any damaging constitutional amendments could be revoked, any exploitive elected elite could be voted out of office to enjoy life on his own, not at the expense of the hard-earning plebeian poor. That’s exactly what differs at last between America and VC-led Vietnam, no matter how sadly the twain meet.

About the Author

J.G. CHETAM THANH HUYNH lives in Dallas, TX. He writes leisurely, spending time with Lot Phan, his wife of 39 years, watching TV, window-shopping, or jogging at a White Rock lakeside.

            Over time experiencing the impossible dream of a Hemingway wannabe, he ends up calling himself Hemingweird instead. H.T. Tam had a collection of seven human life stories in what he called the multifaceted war entitled Saigon 7, favorably reviewed by Newsweek, July 29, 1968. Resettled in the U.S>. in 1996, he is proud to be a Texan. In Texas where he wrote Hemingweird and is working on Hollyweird. Hemingweird, starting on Chapter 2, and its sequel Hollyweird, factual and fictional, tell the life story of a Viet Kieu underdog residing in America and doing his very best to financially help the disabled Veterans on both sides of the Vietnam War.

            “Maybe a pack of lies, maybe a package of facts. Anyways, no dramaturgy. America ’04 was too dramatic to dramatize,” J.G. said.