Nghe An Transport Industry offers incense to pay tribute to heroes and martyrs

(Baonghean.vn) - On January 21, 2017, on the occasion of welcoming the Spring of Dinh Dau 2017, a delegation of officials, workers and civil servants of Nghe An Transport sector, along with veteran officials and officials of Nghe An Transport sector through the periods, led by comrade Nguyen Hong Ky - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, offered incense at Truong Bon National Historical Site, Road 7 Martyrs Cemetery, and Le Canal Memorial.

At the Le Dynasty Canal Memorial in Nghi Yen Commune, Nghi Loc District, the delegation offered incense and wreaths to commemorate the great contributions of King Le and the heroic martyrs who sacrificed their lives fighting foreign invaders, and to express gratitude to the cadres and workers of the transport sector who sacrificed their lives on the Le Dynasty Canal waterway during the resistance war against the US to save the country.

Delegation of officials and employees of Nghe An Transport sector offered incense at Le Dynasty Canal Memorial. Photo by Thu Huyen

The Le Canal Memorial was built by the Nghe An Department of Transport in 1996. After many years of use, this project has degraded. In December 2014, thanks to the support of agencies and units in the Transport sector, the Nghe An Department of Transport restored the Memorial. In February 2015, the project was completed, becoming a meaningful cultural and historical project, demonstrating the morality of "remembering the source of water when drinking" of generations of cadres, workers and civil servants of the Nghe An Department of Transport towards the previous generation.

Members of the delegation offered incense to commemorate the heroic martyrs at the traffic cemetery on National Highway 7. Photo: Thu Huyen

Next, the delegation offered incense at the Martyrs Cemetery of Road 7 - Truong Ke, My Thanh Commune, Yen Thanh District and reviewed the heroic tradition of the nation, commemorating the heroic martyrs and heroic martyrs of the Youth Volunteer Force who heroically sacrificed to protect the smoothness of the route during the war against America.

The Road 7 - Truong Ke Martyrs Cemetery is the place where 454 martyrs who died in the resistance war against the US to save the country in Nghe An are gathered. The cemetery was built in 1993. Over time, this structure has shown signs of deterioration and the Nghe An Department of Transport has called for support from businesses and individuals inside and outside the province to renovate this structure. Currently, after 3 times of renovation and upgrading, the cemetery has been spacious on an area of ​​1,056 m2 with structures such as: Memorial, relief, stele house, auxiliary structures and martyrs' graves.

Offering incense and flowers at Truong Bon National Historical Site. Photo: Thu Huyen

Visiting Truong Bon National Historical Site (Do Luong District) - a place that has become a "Legend" in the great national defense struggle of our nation in the 20th century, members of the Delegation respectfully offered incense sticks at the common grave of 13 heroic martyrs of the Youth Volunteer Force who sacrificed their lives at Truong Bon.

In the 20th century, Truong Bon land had a particularly important strategic position, being the "Unique Route", connecting the traffic arteries from the great rear of the North, providing human and material support to the battlefield in the South. This place has become a heroic and immortal relic marking the glorious feats of arms of our army and people, including 1,500 officers and soldiers of 9 Youth Volunteer Companies of the Youth Volunteer Team against the US to save the country in Nghe An province. Especially the heroic feats and sacrifices of 13 soldiers of the "Steel Squad", "Suicide Squad" of Youth Volunteer Company 317 on October 31, 1968 while on duty to connect the traffic arteries.

Comrade Nguyen Hong Ky - Director of the Department of Transport offered incense at the common grave of 13 heroic martyrs of the Youth Volunteer Force who sacrificed their lives at Truong Bon. Photo: Thu Huyen

To commemorate the heroic sacrifice and glorious victory of the army, people and Youth Volunteers in the resistance war against the US to save the country at Truong Bon, since 2009, the People's Committee of Nghe An province has established a project to restore the relic site on an area of ​​nearly 22 hectares with a total investment of 175.4 billion VND.

In 2013, the Ministry of Transport and the People's Committee of Nghe An province called on domestic and foreign enterprises, organizations and individuals to join hands in contributing to the construction of the relic site. The relic site restoration project was inaugurated on August 7, 2015.

Celebrating longevity and New Year wishes to the elderly who are former officials of the Transport sector. Photo by Thu Huyen

On this occasion, the Department of Transport also presented Tet gifts to veteran cadres, cadres of the Nghe An Transport sector through the periods and celebrated the longevity of 70 and 80 year olds who were former cadres of the sector.

Thu Huyen