Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting to honor people with meritorious services to the national revolution in 2023. Photo: VOV

Prime Minister Chinh extended his deep affection and gratitude to revolutionary veterans, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, Heroes of the People’s Armed Forces, wounded soldiers, sick soldiers, relatives of martyrs and those who made contributions to the revolution.

“The war has ended and the country has become independent and unified, but there is still so much pain. Tears are rolling down on mothers’ cheeks because “three times they sent their children away, twice they silently cried”. The wounds of war still ache every day. The Agent Orange legacy torments so many fates. We see the longing, anxious eyes of the families who have not yet received information about the graves of their children, spouses, fathers and mothers," PM Chinh said. 

"Understanding and sharing with those pains, during the past 76 years, the Party and State have paid special attention to paying the debt of gratitude and adopted practical and effective guidelines and policies to support those who rendered great services to the nation.”

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh gives gifts to heroic Vietnamese mothers. Photo: VOV

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh praised the strong spirit and iron will of wounded, sick soldiers, relatives of martyrs and people with meritorious services to the revolution.

He urged better care of them to strongly promote the tradition of "Drink water, remember the source" and "Eat fruit, remember who planted trees".

On Saturday afternoon, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the families of people with meritorious services to the revolution, policy families and martyrs’ cemeteries in Thua Thien Hue and Quang Tri provinces.

At the martyr’s cemetery in Hue city, he took a moment of silence to remember the great merits of the heroes and martyrs. In Quang Tri Citadel, the Prime Minister offered incense to pay tribute to heroes and martyrs who died in the 81-day-night campaign, from June 28 to September 16, 1972, to protect Quang Tri town and Citadel.

At Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery in Dong Ha city, the resting place of more than 10,800 heroic martyrs, Prime Minister Chinh expressed his deep gratitude for those who bravely fought and laid down their lives in combat of the Road 9 front battle and in Laos during the resistance war against the US.

The Prime Minister offered incense at the Truong Son National Martyrs Cemetery, the resting place of more than ten thousand martyrs, and expressed his deep gratitude to those who sacrificed themselves for national liberation and reunification.