Warm affection of former Youth Volunteers from the same hometown

Former Youth Volunteers took souvenir photos at the home of Ms. Nguyen Thi Dan - Vice President of the Former Youth Volunteers Association of Tan Son Commune. Photo: Hoang Thai Huu.

Returning to Tan Son, revisiting their hometown, witnessing many changes, the commune becoming a Heroic unit in the renovation period, achieving national standards for new rural areas, witnessing miraculous changes, the former Youth Volunteers recalled even more the memories of a youth devoted to the desire for independence and peace.

From Tan Son land, in the mid-1960s, there were 31 youth union members of Tan Son commune (8 boys, 23 girls) aged eighteen or twenty, marching to the district to receive their mission, participating in the resistance war against America, and being assigned to unit XK 326-N63 of Nghe An Youth Volunteer Force.

The most beautiful youth, full of dreams of you guys, you guys have left behind on the roads, anchored at bridges, ferry terminals... Road 15A (Do Luong-Tan Ky), the strategic road Truong Ke Hoa Son - Giang Son intersection (Do Luong); Giat bridge (Quynh Luu), Cam bridge (Nghi Loc)...

Recalling the painful memories, former Youth Volunteer Nguyen Thi Thai's tears rolled down. On February 23, 1968, many groups of American enemy planes roared and dropped a series of bombs and cluster bombs on the key point of Cam Bridge... The enemy bombs took the lives of 6 Youth Volunteer soldiers, 5 died on the spot, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, her body was no longer intact; Ms. Nguyen Thi Ly was seriously injured. On the way to the emergency clinic, because her injuries were too severe, she breathed her last breath in the arms of Company Commander Nguyen Thi Thai...

One summer day, in Hamlet 2, Tan Son Commune (Do Luong), there was a meaningful reunion of former Youth Volunteers from the same hometown. Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Than came from Vinh, Ms. Nguyen Thi Thai came from Hanoi with the former Youth Volunteers of the first term (1965-1967). Mr. Nguyen Tat Vinh - Chairman of the Youth Volunteers Association of Tan Son Commune and the members of the Standing Committee of the Youth Volunteers Association of the Commune led everyone to visit the family of Ms. Nguyen Thi Thiem, wife of Martyr Hoang Van Tam.

Those present respectfully commemorated martyr Hoang Van Tam, former District Party Committee member, former Deputy Secretary of the Do Luong District Youth Union, former Party Secretary and Captain of N63 of the Nghe An Youth Volunteer Team, expert helping Laos, the eldest brother, comrade, and teammate who did not regret his youth and heroically sacrificed himself in Laos for the noble international cause.

The reunion was when some were dead and some were still alive, and the living were already old. Many stories about the 31 youth union members of the commune who enlisted in the Youth Volunteer Force, belonging to the XK 326-N63 Company, were recalled by their comrades. On this return, everyone was moved to remember the 2 comrades who sacrificed at Cau Cam; 8 comrades who were old had passed away. Now, 12 people still live in their hometown, 9 people live far away from home, meeting each other with mixed feelings of joy and sadness.