President Luong Cuong offers incense at Dien Ban Martyrs' Cemetery
Da Nang - President Luong Cuong offered incense at Dien Ban Martyrs' Cemetery, emphasizing his responsibility to show gratitude to the generation of our ancestors who sacrificed for the Fatherland.
This morning (November 18), in Dien Ban ward (Da Nang city), Politburo member and President Luong Cuong and the Central delegation came to offer incense and lay wreaths to commemorate the Heroes and Martyrs at Dien Ban Martyrs Cemetery, expressing the deep gratitude of the Party, State and People to those who sacrificed for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.
Also attending were - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, Central organizations, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Bui Thi Minh Hoai; Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai; Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Prime Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra and local leaders.
Dien Ban Martyrs' Cemetery was built according to national standards, located on an area of about 3 hectares, currently with 5,120 martyrs' graves, including 1,695 graves of martyrs with unidentified information, 124 graves of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and 39 graves of revolutionary veterans.
At the visitation ceremony, President Luong Cuong and the delegation laid wreaths, lit incense in the resting place of thousands of Heroes and Martyrs and spent minutes commemorating, remembering, and expressing gratitude for the many feats and sacrifices of the previous generation for the Fatherland.
The President emphasized: Caring for cemeteries and relatives of martyrs is not only the morality of "Remembering the source when drinking water", but also a vivid demonstration of the spirit of gratitude - gratitude - repayment of merits of the entire political system and the whole society.
The locality needs to pay attention to restoring cemeteries: upgrading infrastructure, beautifying the landscape, adding trees, memorial steles and clean and "beautiful" premises so that cemeteries can truly become a "red address" for traditional education for the younger generation.
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