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Deputy PMs visit revolutionary contributors ahead of martyrs’ day

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam visited and presented gifts to national revolutionary contributors in Kon Tum on July 24 on the occasion of the 70th War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947).
Deputy PMs visit revolutionary contributors ahead of martyrs’ day ảnh 1Paying tribute to fallen soldiers in Ngoc Hoi district (Photo: VNA)
Kon Tum (VNA) – Deputy Prime MinisterVu Duc Dam visited and presented gifts to national revolutionary contributorsin the Central Highland province of Kon Tum on July 24 on the occasion of the70th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947).

He and his entourage visited Heroic Mother Y Noi, whose only son, A Dinh, hadfallen in the fight against the US troops.

The official took this occasion to offer incenseat the cemetery in Ngoc Hoi district, the resting place of over 1,300 soldiersfallen in the country’s resistance wars and volunteer soldiers who sacrificedtheir lives in Laos and Cambodia.

He also attended a ceremony to inaugurate a memorialstele of fallen soldiers in the 1968 and 1972 campaigns.

The same day, Standing Deputy Prime MinisterTruong Hoa Binh offered incense and laid wreaths at the Vietnamese heroicmother’s statue in Tam Ky city, central Quang Nam province.

Quang Nam is home to the largest number ofnational contributors, with 65,400 fallen soldiers, over 30,500 war invalids,and nearly 15,000 Vietnamese heroic mothers with  914 still alive.

Also on July 24, the southern province of KienGiang held a ceremony to commemorate soldiers who laid down their lives in PhuQuoc prison – the largest of its kind in the south in the wartime with over40,000 revolutionaries suffering from brutal torture.-VNA
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