Leaders of Nghe An province offer incense and flowers at the National Martyrs Cemetery of Road 9, Quang Tri Ancient Citadel, and release flowers on the Thach Han River.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation as head of the delegation.

The delegation of Nghe An province included comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; members of the Provincial Party Standing Committee: Le Duc Cuong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee; Pham Trong Hoang - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee; Nguyen Thi Thu Huong - Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department; Bui Thanh An - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province; Phan Dai Nghia - Commander of the Provincial Military Command.

Members of the Provincial Party Executive Committee: Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Bui Dinh Long - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Dinh Hung - Chief of the Provincial Party Committee Office; Kha Van Tam - Chairman of the Provincial Labor Federation; Doan Hong Vu - Director of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, and leaders of a number of provincial departments, branches, sectors, and socio-political organizations also attended.

In Dong Ha City, Quang Tri Province, the delegation of Nghe An Province offered flowers and incense at the Ho Chi Minh Memorial House; the Memorial; rang the bell to pray for heroes and martyrs and held a ceremony, offered flowers, incense, and burned incense at each martyr's grave.

With the morality of "drinking water, remember its source", the delegation of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province expressed their deep gratitude and appreciation to the outstanding children of the homeland who, together with children from all over the country, did not hesitate to sacrifice their blood and bones, and bravely fought for the cause of national liberation and national reunification.

The National Road 9 Martyrs' Cemetery is the resting place of more than 10,800 martyrs who were main force soldiers, local soldiers, militia and guerrillas, and youth volunteers who fought and served on the Road 9 front and in Laos during the resistance war against the US, including about 200 martyrs from Nghe An.

Next, the delegation went to Quang Tri town to offer flowers and incense at the Quang Tri Ancient Citadel Martyrs Memorial to express deep gratitude for the noble sacrifices and contributions of the heroic martyrs for peace, national independence and national reunification.

During the resistance war against the US to save the country, especially during the 81 fierce days and nights of the summer of 1972, from June 28 to September 16, 1972, Quang Tri ancient citadel and Quang Tri town suffered 328,000 tons of bombs, equivalent to the destructive power of 7 atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 by the US Air Force.

Thousands of soldiers have remained forever underground in the Quang Tri Citadel in the heroic and resilient fight to protect the Citadel and Quang Tri town during those 81 tragic days and nights, contributing to creating a historical turning point that changed the situation of the war, forcing the US to resume negotiations and sign the Paris Agreement on ending the war in Vietnam, recognizing the independence, unity and territorial integrity of Vietnam.

Quang Tri Citadel has recorded in the history of the nation a shining milestone of revolutionary heroism; a place to educate the tradition of patriotism and revolutionary tradition for generations and is a sacred symbol of the aspiration for peace.

Not far from Quang Tri ancient citadel is Thach Han river wharf, where "the boat goes up Thach Han, oh... row gently/The bottom of the river is still there, my friend of five years/At the age of twenty, he became waves/Lapping peacefully on the shore, forever and ever".

During 81 days and nights in 1972, thousands of soldiers crossed the Thach Han River from the North bank to the South bank to fight to protect the town and Quang Tri Citadel. Many sons of the Fatherland heroically sacrificed their lives, their blood and bones merging into the Thach Han River. The Thach Han River is considered a “martyrs’ cemetery without tombstones”.

In a sacred and respectful atmosphere, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy and the delegation of Nghe An province conducted a ceremony at the Ceremony Hall and released flowers on the southern bank of Thach Han River to express deep gratitude to the heroic martyrs who fell for the country.

On this occasion, the delegation of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, and Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Nghe An province visited and presented gifts to the Management Board of the National Martyrs' Cemetery of Road 9 and Quang Tri Ancient Citadel.