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 Association of Former Youth Volunteers 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 aspiration 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, marched to the district to receive their mission, participated in the resistance war against the US, and were assigned to unit XK 326-N63 of Nghe An Youth Volunteers.

The most beautiful youth, full of dreams of you guys, you guys have left behind on the roads, anchored at bridges, ferry terminals... Highway 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... Enemy bombs took the lives of 6 Youth Volunteer soldiers, 5 died on the spot, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa's 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 of 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 brothers and sisters of 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 brothers and sisters in 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 Do Luong District Youth Union, former Party Committee Secretary and Team Leader of N63 Nghe An Youth Volunteer Team, expert helping Laos, elder brother, comrade, teammate who did not regret his youth and heroically sacrificed in Laos for the noble international cause.

The reunion was held 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 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.