Nghe An Newspaper comes to the soldiers of Bach Long Vi Island

A delegation of officials and reporters from Nghe An Newspaper and the provincial Radio and Television Station organized a trip to visit and wish the soldiers of the Navy Region A and the soldiers on duty on Bach Long Vi Island a happy new year. The gifts they brought were only cu do candy - a specialty with rich Nghe flavor and 50 copies of Nghe An Spring Newspaper as a New Year's gift for the Navy soldiers. Unexpectedly, those two gifts were especially appreciated by the soldiers on the island.

It is worth mentioning that among the hundreds of officers and soldiers who stayed to perform their duties and celebrate Tet on the island this year, there were many children of Nghe An. When they received gifts from their homeland, they were very moved. The Nghe An Tet newspaper was passed around to read enthusiastically. Some colleagues working in journalism in Hai Phong read the Nghe An Tet newspaper very carefully and gave good reviews of the content and presentation style. Comrade Phan Van Dien - Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Navy newspaper - from Dien Chau said: "I have been away from my hometown to Hai Phong to work for more than 30 years now, and I rarely have the opportunity to return home, so I do not know how Nghe An has changed. Through the Party Committee's newspaper, I see that our hometown is developing very strongly. The Nghe An Tet newspaper has reflected quite fully and richly all aspects of the economic and social situation of the province. In Hai Phong,Every time Tet comes, the Nghe An fellow countrymen association organizes meetings and wishes each other a happy new year. Everyone wants to know information about their homeland. Thank you because this year I have this newspaper as a gift for everyone."

On this island 130km from the mainland, books and newspapers are very rare, so even soldiers from many other provinces gather in Nghe An newspaper to look for information they like. Some young soldiers even bring notebooks to copy poems published in the newspaper and read them to each other. Sergeant Nguyen Thanh Gian - a young soldier of the air defense force stationed on the island, from Ninh Giang - Hai Duong, kept following the reporter, stuttering for a long time before daring to ask for a copy of Nghe An Tet newspaper as a souvenir because... he has a girlfriend he met through letters from Nghe An. We met some fellow countrymen who are working on Bach Long Vi Island and Navy Region A: Lieutenant Colonel Dinh Xuan Bay who is working in the special propaganda department of the Navy - from Nam Dan, Lieutenant Dau Quoc Huy - Platoon leader of the T22 air defense observation station - from Do Luong, soldier Tran Chau Tien - from Da Son, Do Luong... All of them share the same feeling of "longing for their homeland", especially in the days near Tet. Therefore, the information and images of their homeland in Nghe An newspaper have helped them ease their nostalgia.

50 Nghe An newspapers are a very meaningful gift for the island soldiers. Many people continued to come to us wanting to receive them and we had to give them the last newspapers that we intended to carry with us to read whenever we had free time on the road, but it was still not enough. When we learned that although they were in a far away place, they were the readers who got to read the Nghe An newspaper this year's Tet issue the earliest, because when we left, we had just taken it from the printing house, still smelling of ink, and the newspaper had not yet been distributed to readers, the smiles on the soldiers' lips were full of emotion, and we felt the happiness of journalists.

Hoang Hao