State President commemorates war martyrs at Con Dao cemetery
VOV.VN - State President Vo Van Thuong on July 19 offered incense in commemoration of war martyrs at Hang Duong Cemetery on Con Dao island of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province to mark 76 years of Vietnamese War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).
President Thuong was joined by former State President Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Popularisation and Education Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and head of its Commission for Mas Mobilisation Bui Thi Minh Hoai, and other officials representing ministries, agencies and localities.
They all respectfully offered incense and flowers in commemoration of late Party General Secretary Le Hong Phong, late Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Vo Thi Sau, and many other compatriots, heroes and martyrs who have been laid to rest on Con Dao island.
They then attended a death anniversary of heroic martyrs, revolutionary soldiers and patriotic compatriots who died on the island in Con Dao. The ceremony was held at Con Dao Memorial.
President Thuong and other officials also spent a moment of silence commemorating Vietnamese predecessors, President Ho Chi Minh, heroic martyrs, revolutionary soldiers and patriotic compatriots who sacrificed their lives for national independence and freedom.
Con Dao is a sacred land that marks the resilient and indomitable struggle of heroic martyrs, revolutionary soldiers, and patriotic compatriots during the two resistance wars against the French colonialists and the American imperialists. In those fierce battles, they spared no blood, bones and youth, devoting themselves to the cause of national liberation and reunification for the noble ideal of “Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom”.
Currently, Hang Duong Cemetery is home to 1,922 graves, while Con Dao Temple has names of 2,284 martyrs written on stone steles erected there.