Uncle Ho highly valued family affection.

(Baonghean.vn) - Family affection is a good and lasting 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-examine the propaganda content of the Than Ai newspaper. Uncle Ho often visited the headquarters of overseas Vietnamese organizations. Once, 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 overseas Vietnamese landlady moved Uncle Ho so much with 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 and hugged her shoulders tightly and said emotionally: "Oh sister, are you well?". Meeting his sister, the sisters 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 precious. Is Thanh back there, brother? The day she came here, 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: “When Thanh came back, we talked again, she said you were very thin, busy with work all day,...”. Uncle Ho listened to his brother and then read:

"In a flash, it's been decades.

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 that my eldest brother had passed away, 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 plead guilty to my sins 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 Presidential Palace Office received a dispatch from Zone IV to Hanoi informing us of the death of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Thanh (Uncle Ho's sister). This dispatch arrived late. Uncle Ho carefully read the dispatch, pondered deeply, then folded it carefully, put it in an envelope, and placed it in a separate place in his bookshelf. On this occasion, in the package of dispatches sent from the South to the Presidential Palace Office, there was a letter addressed to President Ho, and a photo of our soldiers standing on both sides of the tomb of Vice-Chancellor 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 Presidential Palace Office 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 the letter and photo were found in a wooden box inlaid with floral printed cards, placed on the highest shelf of the book in the study in the house on stilts 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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