The Ohio State University

Return to Vietnam

You’ve decided this wait is too much. It is not worth to sit here and grasp at freedoms that you never will achieve. It is time to return to Vietnam. You pack what little belongings you have away and say goodbye to the people you’ve talked to within the camp. All this effort and for nothing: just a return to the miserable place you wanted to escape.

As you make your way to the exit of the camp, you wonder:

How could have this gone differently?