Party and State leaders offer incense at Truong Bon National Historical Site

On the afternoon of December 12, Politburo members Vo Van Thuong - Standing member of the Secretariat; Phan Dinh Trac - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission; Nguyen Van Nen - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee visited and offered flowers and incense at the Truong Bon National Historical Site, My Son Commune, Do Luong District, Nghe An Province.

Leaders of the Party, State and Nghe An province came to offer flowers and incense at Truong Bon National Historical Relic Site. Photo: Thanh Duy

Also attending were members of the Party Central Committee: Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Culture and Education; Hoang Thanh Tung - Member of the National Assembly Standing Committee, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Law; Nguyen Thanh Long - Minister of Health.

On the side of Nghe An province, there were comrades: Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; along with a number of comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and leaders of Do Luong district.

Comrade Vo Van Thuong - Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat offers incense at the graves of 13 heroic martyrs of the 317th Congress. Photo: Thanh Duy

Politburo members: Phan Dinh Trac - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission; Nguyen Van Nen - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee offered incense at the graves of 13 heroic martyrs of the 317th Congress. Photo: Thanh Duy

Truong Bon is a sacred land, a shining symbol of revolutionary heroism; where the blood of comrades and compatriots was shed in the long march to liberate the nation.

This land is also the place where hundreds of thousands of young people have left their footprints of fighting and youth. Young men and women have brought their eighteen and twenty years of age to war; men and women have stepped into danger with the desire to bring peace and unity to the country.

Leaders of central ministries, branches and Nghe An province offer incense at the graves of 13 heroic martyrs of the 317th Congress. Photo: Thanh Duy

Leaders of the Party, State, central ministries, branches and Ho Chi Minh City listened to a presentation about the heroic fight of the Youth Volunteer Force at the Truong Bon "fire coordinate" during the years of fighting against the US to save the country. Photo: Thanh Duy

During the resistance war against America, 1,240 outstanding people fell on the legendary road due to enemy bombs and bullets, typically the heroic sacrifice of 13 youth volunteers of Company 317 on October 31, 1968.

The war has long since ended, Truong Bon today has become a historical symbol of Vietnamese youth volunteers, a place where the souls of 1,240 heroic martyrs converge, a place that preserves the living values ​​of a generation of young people determined to sacrifice everything for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland, writing a legend of Truong Bon in the 20th century.

Leaders of the Party, State, central ministries, branches, Ho Chi Minh City and Nghe An province came to offer flowers at the Memorial House in the Truong Bon National Historical Site. Photo: Thanh Duy

Delegates respectfully commemorate and pay tribute to the heroic martyrs. Photo: Thanh Duy

Leaders of the Party, State and Ho Chi Minh City offer incense to commemorate the heroic martyrs. Photo: Thanh Duy

Before the heroic martyrs, with sincere hearts, the leaders of the Party, State, Central departments, ministries, branches, Ho Chi Minh City and Nghe An province offered flowers and incense to commemorate and express their deep gratitude for the noble sacrifice of the heroic martyrs at the "fire coordinates" of Truong Bon.