Bài Thơ Nỗi Lòng - Chí Sĩ Ngô Ðình Diệm (Trần Việt Yên)

Vấn Ðề NÐD được cử làm Thủ Tướng (HNT & TTNÐ)
TT Ngô Ðình Diệm: Thử thách đầu tiên (HNT & TTNÐ)
TT Ngô Ðình Diệm: Giai đoạn cực kỳ gây cấn (HNT & TTNÐ)
TT Ngô Ðình Diệm: Tái thiết miền Nam (HNT & TTNÐ)

Vòng Hoa Tưởng Nhớ (Trương Phú Thứ)
Cái Chết của TT Ngô Ðình Diệm (Aladin Nguyen)
Cuộc đảo chánh ám sát TT Ngô Ðình Diệm (Aladin Nguyen)

Phỏng vấn hai cựu tướng Khiêm và Xuân
Bài học từ một sự tuẫn tiết (TS Lâm Lễ Trinh)
Bốn mươi năm ngậm ngùi (Trương Phu' Thứ)
Cầu nguyện với Cố TT Ngô Ðình Diệm (Phan Thiết)
Về những đàn anh lớn (Nguyễn Tường Phong)

Phản Tướng - Bọn ác ôn côn đồ (Tú Gàn)
Những bí mật được tiết lộ sau 40 năm (Tú Gàn)
Những Giờ Ðịnh Mệnh (Tú Gàn - Sài Gòn Nhỏ)

Bốn mươi năm sau tỉnh hay mê (BS Nguyễn Tiến Cảnh )

CS nghĩ sao về Cố TT Ngô Ðình Diệm? (BS Tôn Thất Thiện)
Nghĩa Biển Tình Sông - (Hoài cảm của Trần khắc Kính)

Name: Jame Bond 
Hometown: USA
Sent: Thursday 12/04/2003 4:13:15pm 

Tiec Thuong Dan Toc Viet Nam ngheo kho.

Thuong De da ban cho Dan Toc Viet Nam mot chanh nhan quan tu, ma the he Bo Me chung toi da khong biet gin giu va kinh trong nguoi. 40 nam sau Viet Nam van con la nuoc "NGHEO, DOT"nhat, nhi the gioi.

Day la nhung dieu ma toi da nghien cuu trong suot 10 nam ve Co Tong Thong Ngo Dinh Diem.

1) An com nguoi voi ca kho.
2) Sang lap truong Vo Bi Da Lat, de dao tao nhan tai cho dat nuoc.
3) Phu cap cho gia dinh cac Co Nhi Qua phu,vo con gia dinh cua cac Chien si da hy sinh cho dat nuoc.

Chi nhung diem son nay, toi qua quyet Tong Thong Diem chac chan la mot nguoi cha "GUONG MAU"mot vi Tong Thong anh minh. Neu ngai con song chac mot dieu la Viet Nam da la mot con Rong A Chau roi. That tiec thuong cho dan toc Viet.

Con dan nuoc Viet nghin doi ghi nho nguoi va nhung Cong lao ma nguoi da lam cho que huong chung co, xin thien chua gin giu nguoi. Tiec Thuong

NGO DINH DIEM muon nam.

Name: Ngoc Truong
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Sent: Saturday 11/29/2003 5:00:04pm

You and I witnessed the terrible destiny for a small country like Vietnam, the struggle to survive between communism and capitalism had not been easy. President Diem did the right things for his country, unfortunately he alone could not stop the betrayal of American governments and the group of "mercenaire" generals. At the end as we all have known so far, the fall of the South by the run away of the Americans. We Vietnamese never asked for their presence in my country. Look at Iraq right now. 

Name: A Son of Dai Viet
Hometown: New York
Sent: 12.54 - wed 12 nov 2003

I would like to express my sincere gratitude toward the website's great effort in accumulating various invaluable materials about the Vietnam War and many Vietnamese heroes, especially the late President Ngo Dinh Diem. May President Diem rest in peace and be embraced by love of his Christ. As many other Dai Viet sons and daughters, I wish President Diem happiness and free of suffering.

In my humble opinion, let me borrow a conversational excerpt between Mary Gimbel and President Kennedy to sum up what I think – I believe that many would feel the same way – about President Diem: “President Diem and Advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu were not dictators. Despite under extreme difficult situation, they did what best for their country!” The common mistakes that many scholars have in writing about President Diem are: (1) they use obsolete, biased, inaccurate, and dishonest information; and (2) they use hindsight without taking into account the circumstances that surrounded Vietnam at the time.

As more and more confidential materials have been disclosed by the US government, ARVN generals and officials, and even the Vietnamese Communist government, more light has gradually been shed to bring back the truth to many mysterious critical elements of the Vietnam War. For a long time, the truth about the Vietnam War has been ridiculously distorted by the US media, many former US high-ranking officials, the Vietnamese Communist government former, and sadly, ARVN officers and officials. Usually, there is only one common theme about the Vietnam War that has been played over and over again like an old broken record to justify why the US lost the war, to sooth the American guilt of killing women and children, and to impose blame onto the people of South Vietnam. This theme normally consists of three parts. First, the Vietnamese communists had a tremendous amount of will power to oust the foreigners that include the French, the Japanese and finally the Americans to gain back the sovereignty for the whole Vietnam. Second, all of the US administrations, from Roosevelt, to Kennedy, to Johnson, to Nixon, made many fatal mistakes and ill-advised decisions in NOT supporting such a patriotic genius like Ho Chi Minh, but instead supporting a religious-freak, incompetent, corrupted dictator Ngo Dinh Diem, and many incompetent and corrupted generals thereafter. The fact that Ho Chi Minh strongly believed in the US principle by paraphrasing the US Declaration of Independence in announcing his country’s proclaimed independence in 1945 and begged the Americans for support to oust the French colonialists proves that he was not a true communist at heart and that he openly denounced the control that the Soviet Union might have had upon his administration. He had to finally utilize his last resort by turning to the Soviet Union for support because he had been turned down by the Americans whom he had most admired. In addition, he cleverly played a delicate chess game with the big bully China to receive its support to gain back the independence for his people despite the constant threat reminiscent from the historical conflict and oppression by this neighbor that his motherland had had to endure for the past 1000 years. The reason why Ho Chi Minh declared the liberation of the south is because Ngo Dinh Diem broke the Geneva Agreement. Here goes the commencement of the Vietnam War. Finally, the US was the main player that fought the war. The South Vietnamese were indifferent about the war. The ARVN were highly corrupted and embarrassingly incompetent. As a result, the communists won.

Despite being agonized with anger and sadness, I feel very sorry for the naïveté and ignorance possessed by these so-called Vietnam War experts from the Western civilization. Among ourselves, we do know that they are lies. However, what good will it do in restoring the truth if our opinions are not widely voiced to the rest of world outside our community, especially in the Universities, newspaper, prestigious magazines such as Time, Newsweek, etc. The voice of the forgotten people – South Vietnamese in particular and Vietnamese who embrace freedom and democracy in general – has been suppressed for a long period of time. It is now the time for us, young and old, to step up. We all must provide more encouragement and less criticism to the people who intimately participated in the Vietnam War to come forward with more evidence about the Vietnam War. With the guidance from the old generation and many disclosed information, we the younger generations will speak out to restore the truth that our parents, brothers, and sisters did not have a chance to express. It is a struggle! It should start from every class room in the Universities and every article of a newspaper or magazine. We must generate more websites such as this one to provide more information to everybody. We must construct more literatures such as books and articles at least in both English and Vietnamese regarding the Vietnam War from OUR perspective. Many informative articles and books such as “Nhung Bi Mat Dang Sau Cuoc Chien Viet Nam” written by journalist Tu Gan and others should be translated, of course with the permissions from the copyright owners, into multiple languages such as English, French, etc. Moreover, we should also participate in the movie industry to provide the producers and directors with accurate information about the war and the South Vietnamese. Is there one single movie that recognizes the fact that the people of South Vietnam DID fight the war too? We have been non-existent in the eyes of the US media. If Hollywood was kind enough to include these people, it portrayed them as cowards, murderers, and indifferent and incompetent corruptors. To name a few movies, “Platoon,” “A Bright Shining Lie,” “Heaven and Earth,” “We Were Soldiers Once,” “A Quiet American,” etc. “Con Rong va Chau Tien” will definitely make a great comeback. I have no doubt that our people possess great talents. I strongly suggest that once we as the first generation of Vietnamese Americans have settled in, we should encourage our second generation and the younger first generation to diversity their educational background by exploring other fields outside technical domain such as medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and engineering. It is a practical matter that without a technical background the Asian Americans in general will have many remarkable hurdles to overcome in gaining a spot for themselves in this relatively democratic society. However, things have changed. There have been more and more Asian Americans holding high-ranking positions in the governmental jobs. Thus it is a delicate balance that parents must examine in order to foster success for their children yet still retain the love for their Vietnamese people and country.

Long live Dai Viet!

Name: Han
Hometown: Belleville, NJ
Sent: 19.15 - tue 11 nov 2003

Xin duoc man phep gop y them cho website nay, quy vi co the tham khao them tai lieu ve Tong Thong Diem va ong co van Nhu qua bai viet cua ky gia Tu Gan cua bao Sai Gon Nho, sach cua dai ta Nguyen Huu Due "Nho lai nhung ngay o canh Tong Thong Diem" , qua mot so hoi ky cua cac vi tuong lanh de cho doc gia biet them ve vi Tong Thong mot doi vi nuoc quen minh nay. Mot so khen va che nhung nhin chung khong ai choi cai duoc rang Tong Thong la nguoi yeu nuoc va vi dan nen moi bi tham sat boi mot so tuong lanh tham tien hen ha. Xin cam on vi nhung tu lieu cua quy vi da cho toi biet them ve Tong Thong Diem.

Name: Nhat Dinh Ngo
Hometown: USA
Sent: Sunday 11/02/2003 7:07:46pm

Dung 40 nam sau ngay Tong Thong Ngo Dinh Diem va co Van ngo Dinh Nhu, 80 trieu nguoi dan Viet Nam van chua co quyen Tu do toi thieu cua mot con nguoi. Nhan ngay gio thu 40 cua ngai, xin ngai hay phu ho cho dat nuoc Viet nam som co duoc Tu do va dan Chu, tat ca con dan nuoc Viet com no ao am.

"Khong gi qui hon mieng com manh ao"

NGO DINH DIEM muon nam.

Name: Tong T Le
City/Country: San Jose, Santa Clara
Sent: Sunday 10/12/2003 3:15:04pm 

Name: JameBond
City/Country: USA
Sent: Sunday 10/12/2003 3:15:04pm 

11/1/1963 - 11/1/2003 Ky niem 40 nam, bat dau nhung chuoi ngay den toi nhat cua dan toc Viet keo dai cho den bay gio. Chung ta da hoc duoc nhung gi??

1) Dan Toc Viet Nam da mat di mot vi Tong Thong duc do nhat, co du tu cach va tai nang de dua con tau VN sanh vai cung nam chau,dem lai to do hanh phuc cho con dan nuoc Viet.Cau xin ngai hay phu ho cho dan Viet som thoat khoi ach thong tri cua loai "Qui do"(Cong San Viet Nam).

2) Hiem hoa "Tau Do"(Cong San Trung Cong) se thon tinh Viet Nam trong 10 den 20 nam toi. Ngo Dinh Diem da nam xuong nhung tinh than Ngo Dinh Diem van con day....Tinh than Ngo Dinh Diem van con day va mai mai truong ton.

3) Cung xin ngai hay tha thu cho nhung ten truc tiep hoac gian tiep nhung tay vao viec tham sat Tong Thong va Co Van sau 40 nam nhung nhan vat ay chac phai hoi han nhieu chang han nhu Duong van Minh, Tran Thien Khiem, Nguyen Khanh, Nguyen Van Thieu, Nguyen Cao Ky, Nguyen Van Quang, Ton That Dinh, Mai Huu Xuan, Tran Van Don......ho that tam thuong, Dollars co the mua duoc ho mot cach qua de dang, hay nhin Taiwan, S.Korea, Phillippine....van con cho toi ngay hom nay????

4) Cong San phai ra di tra lai Tu Do, Dan Chu cho Toan con dan Nuoc Viet. Xin ngai hay phu ho cho chung con vuot duoc chong gai va hoan thanh tam nguyen cua nguoi.

"khong gi qui hon,mieng com manh ao"

Viet Nam Muon nam 

Name: Thong Tran
Sent: 17.25 - sun 26 oct 2003

11/2/2003. 40 years of mourning for a good president. I had not been born when president Diem was murdered, but I am so proud that Vietnam has a president who stood up for the independence of our country. If president Diem' life was not cut short, Vietnam would be strong, rich, democratic country. We would not yield land, and sea to China. 

http://ngothelinh.web1000.com/guestbook1.html: Next week 11/2/2003 is the 40th anniversary of President Ngo Dinh Diem's death. I am looking for a web site that dedicates a memorial service to a great president who gave his life for Vietnam. I found it here. In addition, I am grateful for Mr. Ngo The Linh and his service to our country, for his loyalty to a great leader. 

Name: Richard Hayes
City/Country: Danvers, MA, USA 
Sent: Sunday 10/12/2003 3:15:04pm 

I know President Diem was a man of heroic virtue. He was betrayed and murdered by those who stood as his friends. Diem’s life is a testament to the eternal struggle between good and evil in which he was a major figure. May God have mercy on us all in the Western world for having escaped –thus far – the scourge of communism.

Name: N. Ngo
City/Country: USA 
Sent: Tuesday 09/23/2003 7:12:07am 

Thank you for a well compiled page for the President. 
I hope that you could add more pictures of his activities, especially his attention to urban and housing development.

Name: Hoang Van Vui
City/Country: USA
Sent: Monday 07/07/2003 11:15:49pm 

Toi nguyen lam theo loi nguyen cua Tong Thong o bat cu noi nao, luc nao neu co the. 

I promise to fulfill our President's wishes anywhere and at any time if I could.

Name: Andy Vu
City/Country: Australia 
Sent: Monday 07/07/2003 3:18:46pm 

Rat cam dong khi nhin lai hinh anh cua Co Tong Thong NGO DINH DIEM. 

I am deeply moved to see the pictures of the late President NGO Dinh Diem again.

Name: Tien Thanh Le
City/Country: US
Sent: Wednesday 06/25/2003 10:08:09am

Xin tưởng niệm và luyến tiếc một nhân tài đất nước.

Paying respect and remembering our national hero.

Name: Victor Tolentino
City/Country: Canada
Sent: 6.29 - Sun 20 April 2003

Your website have painted the "other side" of President Ngo Dinh Diem that the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon have covered up all these years. A whole lot of mis-informed people, especially those who were born after the Vietnam War will realize the true Ngo Dinh Diem. Hurrah and more power!

Name: Dr. Carlos Diaz Lujan
City/Country: POB 2, Miami, Florida 33135-0002
Sent: 6.22 - Sun 6 April 2003

Thank you for providing an accurate picture of the great South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Twelve years and 58,000 American deaths after President Diem's brutal assassination, the Communists, with the Soviet Union's and Red China's aid, invaded South Vietnam, slaughtering tens of thousands and enslaving the entire Southeast Asian nation. 

While all this took place, US President Gerald Ford stood idly by and did absolutely nothing, thus betraying the South Vietnamese people and all of the Americans soldiers who fought and/or died believing they were sent to Vietnam to defend freedom. History proved that they were shamelessly used as canon-fodder for the benefit of the US armaments industry, the Federal Reserve banksters and well-connected government contractors who profited beyond imagination from the war. Bush's current war against Iraq is a new and improved version of the same scam and fraud against the American people.

As an anti-Communist Cuban-American, I propose we stand together in defense of Faith, Family and Freedom. God bless Vietnam and our betrayed and persecuted Vietnamese Catholic brethren.

Name: Joe Wagner
City/Country: United States
Sent: 16.40 - Thurs 3 April 2003

Thank you for providing an authoritative defense of President Diem from all the frivolous accusation, repeated over and over again until one would think that his detractors had been hypnotized. However, I urge all of Diem's supporters not to go blaming the United States for his death. Kennedy was an embarassment to this nation and I think his betrayal of Diem was just one of his wrongdoings. 

The only reason so many Americans supported his overthrow was that they were lied to by the communist propaganda machine and the supposed "protest" suicides. Most Americans these days think it would have been a better idea to stick in the war, and a great amount of respect is given to Vietnam Veterans.

In any case, the truth needs to come out, especially when so many people accept uncritically what their teachers tell them.

Name: Kent Nguyen
City/Country: Hayward, USA
Sent: 22.09 - Mon 10 mar 2003

Thank you for providing this webpage. I was misinformed in my history class in high school about the eventual assination of Ngo Dinh Diem. My dad repetitive told me about the US coup to get Diem. Unfortunately, I was blinded by the patriotism I had for this country, I did not realize we (USA) -- speak loosely -- would do such a thing when a man like Diem is faithfully strong and committed to seeing his people be freed of oppression. 

Finding the truth has been the biggest embarassment of my life. As much as I am educated, I am still blinded by the one sided view by the American education system. It is something impossible to filter propaganda from facts and to provide a full reasonable view of the whole situation, but as a person, with time, the casuality that have been lost is worth our devoted days and nights to rationalize. And to my dad ... I know he may not read this but I am truly sorry for the remarks I made because of my one-sided view.

Thank you for this truly magnificent website, you have opened up my mind.

Name: Myrna Tull
City/Country: Carlyle, IL U.S.A. 
Sent: 16.06 - thurs 27 feb 2003

Thank you for providing this page. I am deeply ashamed of this part of my country's history. I am even more ashamed that until yesterday, I had never heard anything about President Ngo Dinh Diem. American history classes pick and choose what is taught, leaving out the dark and ugly side of our history. 

Name: Nguyen Canh Van
City/Country: Falls Church , VA, USA 
Sent: 10.23 - sun 23 feb 2003

I never forget the day our first President was murdered, 
the sky suddenly turned to dark and then thunderstorms and heavy rain came; 
my father told me that our country just lost a good President.

God bless Vietnam and my beloved people; I pray to God that one day Vietnam and my people will live in freedom, justice and prosperity.

Name: Vietnamese boy
Sent: 05.52 - tue 18 feb 2003

What a wonderful our ex-president NGO DINH DIEM was!!! 
If he is still alive & rule our country... Maybe we would be in good shape...(I think) 
I'm also grateful for many, many died for our country as Diem's side. 

Name: Jade Cheng
Country: United States
Sent: 14:20 mon 17 feb 2003

Even though I'm Chinese, I admire him greatly. He was a great man.

Name: Huynh minh Hue
Country: Belgium
Sent: 9:43 mon 3 feb 2003

Khi Tổng thống Ngô đình Diệm bị lật đổ tôi mới có 10 tuổi, nhưng tôi vẫn nhớ những ngày trước đó cuộc sống của cha mẹ tôi, cũng đầy đủ, mặc dù ba tôi chỉ là 1 thư ký kế toán ở nha thương cảng Sài Gòn, gia đình đông con do ba tôi có 2 vợ. Tôi còn nhớ những lúc ba tôi dẫn anh em chúng tôi đi xem triển lãm thắng lợi phẩm thu được từ việt cộng, hay xem triển lãm kinh tế ở vườn Tao Ðàn sau đó đi ăn bò bảy món ở Phú Nhuận. Tôi nhớ hoài những ngày tháng êm đềm của thời thơ ấu dưới chế độ của Tổng thống Diệm, tôi thường mơ ước trở lại những ngày thơ mộng đó.

Nhưng bất hạnh cho Việt Nam là bên cạnh Tổng thống Diệm có thêm những người như ông Nhu, với bà Nhu và ông Thục đã làm mất lòng dân để cho Mỹ lợi dụng lật đổ Tổng thống Diệm. Tôi nghĩ nếu không có những người này, hay là Tổng thống Diệm là phật tử trong đất nước VN đa số theo phật gia, hoặc là đa số dân VN là Thiên Chúa Giáo như Phi luật tân với Tổng thống Diệm là công giáo, thì lịch sử VN đã đổi khác. 

Nói tóm lại tôi luôn luôn luyến tiếc, hoài niệm về giai đoạn do Tổng thống Diệm lãnh đạo và luôn luôn kính trọng Tổng thống Diệm.

When President Ngo Dinh Diem was assasinated I was only 10 years old. But I still remember in those days our life was happy and we had enough, even though my Dad was only a secretary at Saigon Sea Port and we have a big family with many children from my Dad’s two wives. I remember the times when Dad took us to see the exhibit of weapon captured from the Viet Cong, or the economy exhibition at Tao Dan public park, then we all went for the seven-coursse of beef dinner in Phu Nhuan. I always remember these happy days of my childhood under the regime of President Diem, and I often dream going back to those happy days.

Unfortunately for Viet Nam, next to President Diem were people like Mr. Nhu, Madam Nhu, and Mr. Thuc, their actions caused the lost of support from our people and gave the CIA the mean to stage a coup d’etat to depose President Diem. I think if these people were not around, or President Diem were a Buddhist in a nation where the majority of people are Buddhists, or the the majority of people are Catholic like Phillipine with President Diem as a Catholic, then the History of Vietnam might have been different.

In brief, I always yearn for and remember the good time when President Diem was the head of our country, and I always respect President Diem.

Name: Patrick Latimer
City/Country: Virginia 
Sent: 13.09 mon 20 jan 2003

A Great man and a Great Patriot. 

Name: James F. Hanlon
City/Country: Sterling, Virginia USA 
Sent: 9:49 thurs 16 jan 2003

Thank you for a necessary and truthful website. As many others who have signed this guestbook, I too know members of President Diem's family. I have done an undergraduate thesis on his government, and am compiling material for a future book. President Diem and the Ngo family have been maligned by a small group of individuals seeking to rationalize actions taken in South Vietnam. I would be happy to correspond & share information with anyone desiring to do so. President Diem, and the entire Ngo family were good people trying to cope with an impossible situation. Their murders were a literal tragedy. 

Name: Daniel E. Teodoru
Hometown: New York
Sent: 13.53 - sat 4 jan 2003

Those of us who experienced Communism in all its forms and its basic unitary evil, and then saw in Vietnam a chance to struggle for the victory of freedom, lost once again in 1975, can now mobilize for the battle of historic truth. Now our chance of victory in the name of truth is possible as we study the documents and leave our mark in an explanatory history of what happened. 

Only through our devotion to the well-being and freedom of the Vietnamese people could we earn the right to attempt understanding of what happened and why. Only by caring for the Vietnamese, as much as we cared for our own can we achieve a feel for their history, their plight and their strength. We may be aging but our experiences will never fade. 

The dead are calling on us to devote ourselves to understanding why:

• purity of motive-- as in the case of President Diem-- lost 

• and commitment to slavishly follow the models of evil-- Stalinist and Maoist Communism-- won, as in the case of Ho Chi Minh, Truong Chinh, Giap, Thanh and Le Duan. 

We must make others understand, despite the veil of lies and deceptions that to this day cloud the history of Vietnam's struggle with Red evil, that the massive shelves of Vietnam War histories sorely need revision. Consider the Internet a weapon given us by God to strike blows for truth against falsehoods. No academic shame will stop us from respectfully honoring the dead with truth and understanding. We are all obligate historians now!

Name: Ngo Dinh My Khanh
Hometown: Denver, CO USA
Sent: 09.23 - Sat 04 jan 2003

Hey! years and years I've been embarassed of telling people my name. (I'm 14 today) One day, I sat with my grandpa, talking about how I got my name. My grandpa told me that he named me. He told me a story about Ngo Dinh Diem, that I found very interesting. 

If I traced back to my family roots, back and back and back, I would find that I'm related to Ngo Dinh Diem. I found out that he was the President of Vietnam and all that stuff. How Vietnam was a well populated country and stuff like that. Anyways, after he died, Vietnam became more poor and they were losing lives. People began to starve, and had no shelter. 

So, I take this time to honor my family name because Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem was an incredible man!!! 

Name: Quang Phan
Hometown: Canada
Sent: 18.34 - Tues 31 dec 2002 

Xin kính cẩn nghiêng mình trước vong linh cố Tổng Thống Ngô Ðình Diệm, một vị Tổng Thống tài ba, lỗi lạc, liêm khiết, hết lòng vì nước vì dân. Lịch sử Việt Nam sẽ muôn đời ghi nhớ Tổng Thống Ngô Ðình Diệm như một anh hùng dân tộc.
Quang Phan

Paying respect to our late President Ngo Dinh Diem, a great President who was well-known, honest, not self-serving, dedicated his life for our country and our people. Vietnam history will record and always remember President Ngo Dinh Diem as our Nation’s Hero.

Name: Dinh Le
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Sent: 22.13 - sun 15 dec 2002 

Vô cùng thương tiếc TT Ngô Ðình Diệm. Xin Cụ phù hộ nước Việt thoát khỏi ách cộng sản.

Mourned the lost of President Ngo Dinh Diem. May your spirit continue to guide and watch over us for Vietnam to be free of communist oppression.

Name: Tran Ba Cuong
Hometown: Canada
Sent: 18.49 - tue 26 nov 2002 

Rất cảm động khi thấy có một web page như thế này cho TT Diệm. Xin cám ơn rất nhiều các người đã chịu khó thực hiện. Với tôi, TT Diệm là người đáng kính trọng, đáng suy tôn vì tấm lòng yêu nước, yêu dân bao la của ông. Tôi nghĩ, trong một ngày rất gần, dân tộc VN sẽ viết lại trang sử công bằng để ghi công cho Người, và sẽ xây dựng những tượng đài, đặt tên Người cho những con đường trên quê hương chúng ta. Xin cảm ơn các bạn đã thực hiện trang web này. Kính.

I am touched to see this webpage for President Diem. Thank you webmaster for your work. To me, President Diem is one who deserved respect and rememberance because of his great love for our country and our people. I think, in the very near future, the Vietnamese will re-write our history to truly record his contribution, will build his statues and name many streets after him. Thank you for making this webpage. Respectfully,

Name: Vu Pham
Hometown: Canada
Sent: 17.38 - tue 26 nov 2002 

Cám ơn webmaster đã làm một website kỹ niệm cho vị anh hùng dân tộc. Chúng ta hãy nhớ cụ Diệm là một người yêu nước và phải noi gương cụ để sống.

Thank you webmaster for making this Memorial website for our National Hero.  Let us remember President Diem as a true patriot and follow his example in our live.

Name: Nhut Hoang
Homepage:http://Thepeaceland.org
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Sent: 17.45 - mon 25 nov 2002 

Thank you for sharing the true VNCH history! At last but not least to know about the real enemies. All we can say is deeply appreciation to President NGO-DINH-DIEM as well as those who fight for freedom! We the good Vietnamese citizen will never forget the help from the US and never remember dirty politicians who killed the innocent victims. Please have a warm heart to think of President DIEM, who is great world 's freedom fighter! Sincerely,

Name: Tran Van Tro
Hometown: Australia
Sent: 14.15 - wed 20 nov 2002 

Xin kính cẩn nghiêng mình bái chào để bày tỏ muôn vàn tiếc thương với Vị Anh Hùng Dân Tộc, Người đã hiến trọn vẹn một đời hy sinh cho dân tộc Việt Nam thân yêu và chính nghĩa. Từ ngày Người phải oan ức nằm xuống vĩnh viễn, quê hương Việt Nam chưa được một ngày nào tươi sáng hơn! Số phận của Người đã gắn chặt với số phận bi thảm của cả quê hương dân tộc. Nếu không có thể chu toàn trọng trách với quê hương và dân tộc, Người đã sẳn sàng lấy mạng sống mình để làm chứng cho lòng thành của Người. Con nguyện một đời học đòi tấm gương oanh liệt của Người đã nêu.

Sống linh thác thiêng, xin anh linh Người độ trì cho quê hương và dân tộc Việt Nam sớm được hưởng thái bình hạnh phúc như nhiều nước văn minh của thế giới.
 

Respectfully paying tribute and show deep gratitude to our Nation’s Hero, the man who dedicated the entire life sacrificing for noble cause and our beloved Vietnam. Since the day you were unjustly betrayed and murdered, Vietnam has not had a brighter day! Your destiny is closely linked to our Nation’s sad destiny. Since you could not fulfill completely your responsibility for our Nation, you readily paid with your life to convey your patriotism. I promise to follow your heroic and brave example for the rest of my life.

A guiding light when you were alive, after death your spirit continues. I ask that your spirit always guide and help our people so that our country soon achieve the real peace and prosperity like other powers in the world.

Name: The Nguyen
Hometown: Irvine, CA92620
Sent: 14.55 - wed 13 nov 2002 

WE'D LOST A GREAT PRESIDENT.  OUR NATION HAD LOST A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

Name: Kevin Vu
Sent: 12.03 - mon 11 nov 2002

Toi rat nguong mo Tong Thong Ngo Dinh Diem, Co Van Ngo Dinh Nhu va Dai Ta Le Quang Tung. Nhung trang nay con thieu them nhung chi tiet cua ong Ngo Dinh Nhu va Dai Ta Le Quang Tung. Xin quy vi dong gop them de nhung nguoi tre nhu toi hieu biet them. Xin cam on.

I admire President Ngo Dinh Diem, Advisor Ngo Dinh Nhu and Colonel Le QuangTung. These pages still lack information on Mr. Ngo Dinh Nhu and Colonel Le QuangTung. Please send in more info to contribute (to this website) so the younger generation like me can learn more about them. Thank you.

Name: Andy Ngo
Hometown: Phu Cam, Hue, Vietnam
Sent: 8:26:14pm Wed 11/06/2002

Tôi biết về TT Diệm và cả Gia Ðình họ Ngô. Tiếc thương ông là người con có hiếu với mẹ; thương anh em và dân tộc VN. TT DIỆM xứng đáng cho chúng ta tôn thờ cả hôm nay cho tới mai sau ....... 

I know President Diem and the Ngo family. Mourning the lost, he was a devoted son to his Mother, beloved brother to his brothers and sisters, a patriot to Vietnam. President Diem should be honored and remembered today and for generations to come …

Name: Ngô Minh Hằng
Homepage:http://ngominhhang.tripod.com/nmh.html
Sent: 11.16 - thu 31 oct 2002
 

TIẾC THƯƠNG

(Kẻ hậu sinh xin đốt nén hương lòng tưởng niệm 
nhân ngày giỗ Cố Tổng Thống Ngô Đình Diệm, 
vị Tổng Thống khả kính đầu tiên 
của nước Việt Nam Cộng Hòa) 
 

Một ánh sao băng, tắt giữa trời 
Giang sơn từ đấy tối thêm thôi!
Thương người nghĩa khí tàn cơn mộng 
Tiếc bậc tài hoa úa mảnh đời! 
Khinh bọn túi cơm, loài rắn rết 
Giận phường giá áo, lũ đười ươi 
Nếu không phản phúc, không tham vọng 
Đất nước giờ đây hẳn kịp người! 
 

Ngô Minh Hằng 
Trích "Có Những Vùng Trời" 
11-02-2002 
 

Name: Pham Quoc Thang
Sent: 23.40 - sat 26 oct 2002

Every body dies, only their names live forever. The people who sabotaged the Ngo Dinh Diem government should never be forgiven.

Name: KERRY-LEE ASHTON MARSH
Hometown: TOKOROA
Sent: 12.21 - mon 7 oct 2002

I AM DOING A STUDY ON NGO DINH DIEM AND THOUGHT I WOULD PAY MY RESPECTS TO A VERY WISE MAN.

Name: Duc-Minh
Hometown: Littleton
Sent: 00.11 - sat 21 sep 2002

I was so glad that I saw this website! Presenting information to the whole world about what really happened in Vietnam. The world deserve to know the other side, the real side. Truely, Ngo Dinh Diem wasn't as repressive or as dictorial as many have believed. He had no other choice in protecting the freedom of his people. Thank you so much for the informative webpage.

Name: Martin Wingfield
Homepage: http://www.booksonvietnam.com
Hometown: Wigton (United Kingdom)
Sent: 07.21 - mon 29 jul 2002

How different things might have been. Hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved had Ngo Dinh Diem been left to govern his country without interference. Those irresponsible US journalists, who in 1962/63 just sent back the misleading 'Saigon' version of events in South Vietnam, were the catalyst that set off the three maverick White House officials to launch their ill-fated coup. Karnow, Sheehan, etc. have painted such a false picture of Ngo Dinh Diem for our history books. I only hope that one day the record will be set straight.