Hearts and Minds (1974)

Mui Duc Giang: Self - Coffin Maker

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• Mui Duc Giang, Coffin Maker : Many bombs. Many coffins. These are for children. Eight or nine hundred a week. I have lost seven children myself. Many have died here. Though, it's nothing like in the countryside. Many more have died there. In the countryside, there are no coffins. There's no money to buy them.

  Interviewer : How did all the children die?

  Mui Duc Giang, Coffin Maker : Poison. Poison, you know. These planes keep spouting and spraying this stuff. And so many people have died. It seems to destroy their intestines with this spraying and bombing so many have died. Each day, right on time, the bomb craters appear. Hundreds of tons are dropped each day. We can't talk about it. We can't talk about it; because, we are afraid of the government.

• Mui Duc Giang, Coffin Maker : No matter how many decades America fights, it will never conquer Vietnam. Never. I'm telling you so that you will go back and repeat it to President Nixon. Over here, as long as there is rice to eat, we'll keep fighting. And if the rice runs out, then we'll plow the fields and fight again.