Bright red flag in Truong Son village

(Baonghean) - In April, the Mong people in Ky Son district enter the farming season. The farming season has just begun, but the rice warehouse of Mr. Lau Chong Cho's family in Tham Man land is still very full. Mr. Cho's house is short of people, both he and his wife have been unable to speak since childhood... I praised Mr. Cho for growing a lot of rice. Mr. Cho smiled brightly and pointed to Truong Son village, where the red flag with a yellow star stands out in the middle of the border mountains and forests. Looking in the direction Mr. Cho just pointed, Mr. Lau Ba Chay, Secretary of the Party Committee of Nam Can commune "translated": Mr. Cho said it was all thanks to the help of his children, the regular militia.

The Nam Can Commune Standing Militia Squad was established in 2002. The Commander of the Nam Can Commune Military Command, Lau Ba Tong, confided: Currently, each day a standing militia soldier receives 25,000 VND for food and 600,000 VND in monthly allowances, which is not enough to cover daily living expenses, while most of us are the main breadwinners of our families. Therefore, in order to "stand firm" and "stay strong", we have passed on to each other the spirit of overcoming difficulties. The brothers in the squad always keep in mind one thing: "Each day that passes is another successful day of overcoming difficulties".

Nam Can militia squad (Ky Son) practices tactics to fight the enemy.

Together to overcome difficulties, each regular militia soldier worked tirelessly. In addition to increasing production around the kitchen and garden, they also asked the commune to reclaim 10 hectares of upland land to grow corn, rice, etc. From this upland land, the regular militia squad of Nam Can commune not only had enough food for themselves but also had extra income when selling, maintaining a capital fund to help the brothers in the squad when they got married, built houses, or when their families encountered difficulties or misfortunes.

The Mong people's farming season usually lasts from April to June. During the day, the regular militia squad spends time helping poor families with farming. At night, they use flashlights and torches to clear and clear fields for the families of militia soldiers with few people. The family of regular militia soldier Lau Ba Ba in Truong Son village, his wife gave birth so there was no one to do the farming. For 5 consecutive nights, the whole squad helped Lau Ba Ba's family clear and clear an area of ​​nearly 2 hectares.

Mr. Lau Ba Chia in Truong Son village told me many good stories about the Nam Can permanent militia squad. That in Truong Son village there was a heroic Vietnamese mother, Xia Xua. When she was still alive, every day, morning, noon, afternoon, and evening, the permanent militia soldiers, regardless of their age, went up and down the steep slope, taking turns to get firewood, fetch water, clean the house, cook, and buy medicine to help her. That the road from the center of Nam Can commune to Hoi Phoc village used to be only through the forest. Pitying the hard-working people of Hoi Phoc village, the permanent militia soldiers clung to the mountains and forests, working day and night to open a road for the villagers to travel on motorbikes.

In Mr. Chia's story, I also learned that there was a time when the Mong people in Nam Can were so worried that they lost their appetite and sleep because of the situation where the local boys liked the local girls and then tried to lend them their phones to tie them down and then organized to steal their wives. Or, from the traditional cultural beauty of "poking holes" when the boys went to find their spouses, many bad guys took advantage of it to commit property theft... All of these things, the Party Committee and the government of Nam Can commune trusted and assigned the task to the regular militia soldiers to find a way to handle. Receiving the task, the squad did not mind the long distance, the night to go to each village to grasp the situation. They, together with the local militia force, created a close bond to propagate to the villagers to understand and coordinate together to handle the situation.

The peaceful village, the red flag with yellow star in the Truong Son land is even more red. The red color is lit up by the hearts of the militia soldiers who love every inch of their homeland's mountains and forests.

Article and photos: Ho Linh (HT: 5NK - 129, Vinh)