--- title: They Have Come Back! url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/they-have-come-back-1965-1969/ description: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1091) says Ba Canh hamlet in Binh Dinh, once under neither Viet Cong nor government control. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. They Have Come Back! [![They Have Come Back!, 1965 US poster: A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1091) says Ba Canh hamlet in Binh Dinh, once under](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/they-have-come-back-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/they-have-come-back-1965-1969.jpg) # They Have Come Back! A vertical photo-sheet (code SP-1091) says Ba Canh hamlet in Binh Dinh, once under neither Viet Cong nor government control, now has 796 residents and a building programme, and that 850 former residents have returned. Close portraits of a smiling 71-year-old man and two women carry quoted statements, one noting a husband killed by the Viet Cong. Named villagers speak in their own words as proof, and the sheet gives no figures on those who did not return. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` HỌ ĐÃ TRỞ VỀ ! Từ lâu Ấp Bá Canh tại Bình Định là một vùng không an-ninh, không ở dưới sự kiểm soát của Việt Cộng cũng như Chính Phủ Quốc Gia. Hơn phân nửa dân số đã di-cư chỉ còn lại 796 người. Nhưng sinh hoạt của dân chúng Bá Canh ngày nay khác hẳn, số người còn lại đã nỗ lực cải tiến và một chương trình Xây Dựng rộng rãi đang thành hình với sự cộng tác của những cán bộ Xây Dựng Nông Thôn. Một trường học, một cái cầu, một hệ thống dẫn nước, một con lộ và nhiều nhà chế tạo thủ công nghệ đã được hoàn thành. Đều quan hệ hơn hết là 850 người dân cũ đã trở về làng. Đây là vài người trong số người trở về. Ông cụ 71 tuổi này đã giúp các phụ nữ dồn đá đắp đê và đặt ống nước. Ông sung sướng nói: ''Tôi phải để lại một cái gì ích lợi cho con cháu tôi và đây là dịp cuối cùng.'' Chị Lê thị Hoa vợ một anh thợ hồ vừa làm cơm trưa vừa nói: ''Chúng tôi trở về vì đây là quê hương của chúng tôi. Chúng tôi lập nghiệp nơi đây lần nữa với một hy-vọng mới''. Chị Trần thị Trung đang tình nguyện sắp đá làm bờ mương dẫn nước. Chồng chị đã bị VC giết năm rồi để lại chị ba đứa con thơ. Chị nói : ''Lúc trước tôi di cư khỏi ấp này, sau về nghe nói về cuộc cải tiến ở đây nên trở về góp sức.'' SP-109[1] ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THEY HAVE COME BACK! For a long time Ba Canh Hamlet in Binh Dinh was an insecure area, under the control of neither the Viet Cong nor the National Government. More than half the population had migrated away, leaving only 796 people. But the life of the people of Ba Canh today is completely different: those who remained have made efforts to improve things, and a broad Construction programme is taking shape with the cooperation of the Rural Construction cadres. A school, a bridge, a water-supply system, a road and many handicraft workshops have been completed. Most important of all, 850 former residents have returned to the village. Here are a few of those who returned. This 71-year-old grandfather has helped the women gather stones to build the dike and lay water pipes. He said happily: "I must leave something useful for my children and grandchildren, and this is the last chance." Mrs. Le thi Hoa, wife of a bricklayer, said while cooking lunch: "We returned because this is our home village. We are making a living here again with a new hope." Mrs. Tran thi Trung is volunteering to arrange stones for the bank of a water channel. Her husband was killed by the VC last year, leaving her with three young children. She said: "Before, I migrated away from this hamlet; later I heard about the improvements here and so came back to contribute." SP-109[1] ``` [← The Viet Cong Attack Religious Leaders, Destroy Pagodas and Churches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/the-viet-cong-attack-religious-leaders-destroy-pagodas-and-churches-1965-1969/) [Đập lúa bằng máy! (Threshing Rice by Machine!) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/threshing-rice-by-machine-1965-1969/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial) - [Bronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-caligula-ob-cives-servatos-0037/) (Roman Empire · 0037 · Testimonial, Transfer) - [Bronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sestertius-trajan-optimo-principi-0103/) (Roman Empire · 0103 · Testimonial, Glittering generalities) - [Seljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seljuq-gold-dinar-sanjar-caliph-name-1099/) (Great Seljuk Empire · 1099 · Testimonial) - [Estoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-bernard-preaching-second-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial) - [Opening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eracles-urban-ii-preaching-first-crusade-w137-1275/) (France · 1275 · Testimonial, Transfer)