四十八年前,两万多人的鲜血曾经洒满了这个小城的每一个角落,如今仍然散落在田间地头的一辆辆坦克、一尊尊大炮和一件件飞机残骸令人惊叹。现在,它们都成了一个个开放的游览点,孩子们可以每天在纵横交错的战壕里、残破的坦克中钻来跑去玩捉迷藏。牢固的东西往往能长久地保留,但如果它给你带来的是耻辱,那么耻辱同样也将更长久。这样的例子可以从战败的法国军队的这些坦克上得到证明。——2002年春节,作者于越南奠边府战役遗址上 Forty-eight years ago, the blood of more than 20,000 people had spilled over every corner of the town, and the tank, the statue of a cannon, and the wreckage of one piece of aircraft, still scattered in the field, were still amazing. Now they are an open touring spot where children can drill and play hide-and-seek in broken tanks in crisscross trenches every day. Firm things tend to stay long, but if it brings you shame, the same stigma will last longer. Such examples can be demonstrated from these tanks of the defeated French army. - 2002 Spring Festival, author at Vietnam Dien Bien Phu site