The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom, and peace. But in the face of a threat to their country's independence and freedom, the Vietnamese people would rather sacrifice everything, not afraid to lose their lives, to defend the independence and freedom of their homeland.