Forever grateful to the heroic martyrs

On the evening of July 26, at Hang Duong Cemetery (Con Dao Special Zone, Ho Chi Minh City), the City Party Committee - People's Council - People's Committee - Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City solemnly held an incense offering and candle lighting ceremony to commemorate the 78th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947 - July 27, 2025).

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Nguyen Van Nen, Politburo member, Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Truong My Hoa, former Secretary of the Party Central Committee, former Vice President; Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Party Central Committee member, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Nguyen Van Duoc, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Dang Minh Thong, Standing Committee member of the City Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Nguyen Van Tho, Standing Committee member of the City Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Tran Thi Dieu Thuy, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee. Also participating in the working delegations were former leaders of the Party and State; former leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and leaders of many departments and branches of Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City delegation offered incense at Hang Duong Cemetery

Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dang Minh Thong emotionally shared: In the sacred atmosphere of July, at Hang Duong Cemetery, the land soaked with the blood and bones of many generations of revolutionary soldiers and patriotic compatriots, the Party Committee, Government and people of Ho Chi Minh City respectfully commemorate and pay deep gratitude to the heroic souls of the martyrs who fell for the independence, freedom, peace and unification of the Fatherland.

Comrade Dang Minh Thong spoke at the candle lighting ceremony

Comrade Dang Minh Thong emphasized that, with the tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source", the City always considers the work of gratitude as a regular, sacred and honorable political task. Ho Chi Minh City ensures that 100% of living Vietnamese Heroic Mothers are taken care of; 100% of communes, wards and special zones do a good job of caring for war invalids, martyrs and people with meritorious services to the revolution. Along with that, a series of practical care programs are maintained and spread such as: building gratitude houses, gratitude savings books; taking care of relatives of martyrs, wounded soldiers, sick soldiers and people with meritorious services to the revolution.

Ho Chi Minh City delegation held a moment of silence to commemorate the heroic martyrs.

“Today, in the sacred land of Con Dao - once known as "hell on earth", bearing the mark of the heroic revolutionary struggle history of the nation - where Hang Duong Cemetery lulls the eternal sleep of tens of thousands of revolutionary soldiers and patriotic compatriots through many generations of imprisonment, we reopen each page of history written about the late General Secretary Le Hong Phong, patriot Nguyen An Ninh, heroic martyr Vo Thi Sau... The predecessors, who fell, remain in the land of Con Dao, but their resilient and indomitable fighting spirit has fueled the revolutionary movement of our entire Party, people and army to the final victory", Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dang Minh Thong shared.

Ho Chi Minh City leaders offer flowers and incense at Hang Duong Cemetery

On behalf of the Party Committee, Government and people of Ho Chi Minh City, the Ho Chi Minh City Delegation respectfully bows before the heroic martyrs and sends sincere gratitude to the heroic Vietnamese mothers, martyrs' families, people with meritorious services to the revolution, and those who have silently devoted and sacrificed for today's independence.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen offers incense

Ho Chi Minh City delegation offered incense in memory

Delegates deeply expressed gratitude for the heroic sacrifices of the martyrs.

Comrade Dang Minh Thong also expressed the City's determination to continue joining hands with the whole country to develop Con Dao in a green, clean, sustainable direction, preserving historical and spiritual values, building this place into an ecological, cultural and historical tourism center, worthy of the great sacrifices of our ancestors.

IMG_1833 (2).JPG — Comrade Nguyen Van Nen and the delegation offered incense at the tomb of the late General Secretary Le Hong Phong at Hang Duong Cemetery.

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen burns incense at the martyrs' graves.

Before that, the delegation offered flowers and incense at Hang Keo Cemetery and attended the flag-raising ceremony at the headquarters of the People's Committee of Con Dao Special Zone.