(VOVworld) – President Truong Tan Sang says the Party and State have adopted preferential policies for revolutionary contributors and continue to observe July 27^th as the National Day for War Invalids and Martyrs to honor their contributions to the nation.

 

President Truong Tan Sang addressed an art program entitled ‘Aspiration for Reunion’ in Hanoi on July 27t, 2015 to mark the 68th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day.

Addressing an art exchange in Hanoi on Monday to mark the 68^th anniversary of the day, President Sang asked relevant agencies, sectors, and provinces to pay more attention to revolutionary contributors and provide them with both material and spiritual support to improve their living conditions.

He also called for incentives to help invalids and relatives of martyrs participate more in the development of production and social activities.

President Sang underscored more efforts “to the search, repatriation, and identification of the remains of soldiers, to upgrading martyrs’ cemeteries, and to improving communications so that everyone, especially the younger generation, recognizes and honors those who sacrificed their lives for the nation. We should turn our awareness and sentiments into concrete acts to help revolutionary contributors and aid national construction and defense.”

 

Representatives of the Vietnamese Embassy, relevant agencies, and Vietnamese communities in Cambodia burned incense and laid wreaths at the Monument commemorating Vietnamese Volunteer Soldiers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on July 27th, 2015.

At a special art program in Hanoi the same day, 20 savings books worth 4,600 USD were presented to wounded soldiers.

At Tam Nong martyrs’ cemetery in Dong Thap province, a ceremony was held to retrieve 132 sets of remains of martyrs. Nearly half of them are Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and advisors who died during the war in Cambodia.