Ho Chi Minh Father of Guerilla Warfare and Free Vietnamby Rit
Nosotro First Published:: 2003 Ho Chi Minh was born in the
village of Kin Lien of Annem as Nguyen Sinh Cung. His father, a
Confucian scholar, brought Ho Chi Minh up in the religion of
Confucianism, and taught him how to be a rebel against
injustice. Ho Chi Minh participated in tax revolts and other
rebellious activities with his father against the French
government that held control of Vietnam at the time. After he
received an education Ho Chi Minh worked a couple of jobs here
and there. He was a teacher for sometime and then worked as a
cook's helper in 1911on a streamer that traveled from Saigon,
Vietnam to Marseilles, France. Ho Chi Minh abandoned his cooking
job for a life of political action against France, Japan, and
the USA. Like colonized peoples elsewhere, Minh knew well the
French call for liberté, égalité, and fraternité. When not
earning money as a photograph retoucher, Ho Chi Minh advanced
his knowledge in the political scene by joinin