Uncle Ho highly valued family affection.

(Baonghean.vn) - Family affection is a good, sustainable foundation of patriotism and love for the people. As a person who devoted his whole life to the country and the people, Uncle Ho highly valued family affection.

In 1929, Uncle Ho returned to Thailand from Europe. During his stay in Thailand, Uncle Ho helped overseas Vietnamese cadres consolidate and develop overseas Vietnamese organizations and re-learn the propaganda content of the Than Ai newspaper. Uncle Ho often visited the headquarters of overseas Vietnamese organizations. One time, on the way to visit those headquarters, halfway there it was dark, Uncle Ho stopped by a Vietnamese family who were carpenters and stayed overnight. That night, the landlady recited Kieu to lull her child to sleep. Uncle Ho listened. The next morning on the road, Uncle Ho said to comrade Tran Lan, his companion, in a very affectionate voice:

"Away from home for a few decades

Last night I heard my mother lulling me to sleep.

Just the lullaby of the Vietnamese-American landlady moved Uncle Ho to such a level of family affection!

In Viet Bac, Uncle Ho often visited ethnic families.

At the end of 1946, at the Northern Palace, Uncle Ho met his sister Nguyen Thi Thanh. After more than thirty years of separation, when he met his sister, Uncle Ho stretched out his arms to hug her shoulders and said emotionally: "Oh sister, are you well?". Meeting his sister, they talked for more than half an hour in the Government Guest House, Uncle Ho and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh both had tears in their eyes.

Also at the end of 1946, also at the Northern Palace, Uncle Ho met his brother Nguyen Sinh Khiem. The two brothers met after more than thirty years apart, Uncle Ho was moved and said: "You just came back, how are you, how are you? How are you? Sister Thanh is back, is she well? She came here but I was too busy, I couldn't see her much,... I invited her to stay until the afternoon but she went home". Mr. Nguyen Sinh Khiem replied: "Sister Thanh came back and talked to me, she said you were very thin, busy with work all day,..." Uncle Ho listened to his brother and then read:

"In a flash, several decades have passed

As long as there are mountains, rivers and people today".

After receiving Xa Doai oranges from his brother, Uncle Ho immediately recited a folk song from Nghe An:

"My hometown is sweet with Nam Dan sugarcane

Sweet potatoes from Ro market, fragrant oranges from Xa Doai

Who is back, who misses who?

I am like the oil that burns for five watches.

Reading the above folk songs, Uncle Ho blinked his eyes and asked his brother about the situation in Nghe An province and Nam Dan district, about the activities of the local government and organizations, about the number of relatives and friends from his youth. In response to the above questions, Mr. Khiem praised Uncle Ho, "You have been gone for a long time but you have such a good memory."

Uncle Ho visited his hometown Kim Lien (Nam Dan, Nghe An) in 1961.

In 1950, hearing the news that his elder brother Nguyen Sinh Khiem had passed away, due to the resistance war situation, he could not return home to mourn him. On September 11, 1950, Uncle Ho from the Viet Bac resistance base sent a telegram to the Inter-Zone IV Administrative Resistance Committee, telegram number 1229, asking him to forward it to Kim Lien village, Nguyen Sinh clan. “Hearing the news of my eldest brother’s passing, I was very sad. Because the country’s affairs were heavy and the roads were far, when he was sick I could not take care of him, when he passed away I could not take care of him. I would like to accept my guilt before his soul and ask for the people’s forgiveness for a son who sacrificed his family’s love for the sake of taking care of the country.”

At the end of 1954, the Office of the Presidential Palace received a dispatch from Zone IV sent to Hanoi informing of the death of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh (Uncle Ho's sister). This dispatch arrived late. Uncle Ho carefully read it, pondered, then carefully folded it, put it in an envelope, and put it in a separate place in his bookshelf. On this occasion, in the package of dispatches sent from the South to the Office of the Presidential Palace, there was a letter addressed to President Ho, and a photo of our soldiers standing on both sides of the tomb of Vice-Principal Nguyen Sinh Sac in Cao Lanh. This photo was small, the watermark was blurry, but the words engraved on the tombstone were still clearly visible. The Office of the Presidential Palace forwarded the letter and photo to Uncle Ho, but he did not return them.

It was not until mid-September 1969, after Uncle Ho passed away, that we found the letter and photo in the wooden box with inlaid floral printed cards, placed on the highest shelf of the book in the study room in the stilt house where Uncle Ho lived. With his family members, his mother, father, sister, and brother, Uncle Ho worshiped them in his heart; Uncle Ho's heart belonged to his family members, to his clan, to his hometown Nghe An, to the country of Vietnam, to all the Vietnamese people.

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