Reviving the spirit of 'Where there is an enemy, we will go' through the memoirs of heroic martyrs

“In our lives, there is no enemy, so we just keep going” – the lyrics in the song “Xanh quan xa” by musician Do Nhuan have become an endless source of inspiration for our army and people throughout the years of resistance.

Few people know that the inspiration for this song came from a saying of a hero. The author of that saying is Heroic Martyr Le Van Dy (1926-1970), from Me Linh commune, Hanoi city, one of 33 officers and soldiers who made outstanding achievements at the Dien Bien Phu front in 1954.

On October 15, at the Vietnam Women's Museum (Hanoi), the Soldier's Heart Organization introduced the memoir "Wherever there is an enemy, we go" by Hero of the People's Armed Forces, martyr Le Van Dy.

The book revives real people, real events, and heroic pages of our army's history about the 1953-1954 Winter-Spring Campaign in general and the Dien Bien Phu Campaign in particular, of which the author is an insider.

Writer, Colonel Dang Vuong Hung, Chairman of the Soldier's Heart Organization, introduced the book. (Photo: PV/Vietnam+)

Those are the battles, the stories of the soldiers' lives, extremely vivid, with sadness, joy and revolutionary optimism; every story is imbued with humanity, comradeship, love between the army and the people and the special spirit of solidarity between Vietnam and Laos.

On March 17, 1965, soldier Le Van Dy finished writing his memoirs about the period of fighting against the French colonialists. When he started writing the first lines of “The First Battle on Friendly Land”, he received orders to go with his unit across Truong Son to Laos to continue fighting. The unfinished manuscript pages had to be left at the Moc Chau rear base because the war was getting more and more fierce.

On March 13, 1970, he heroically fell on the battlefield in Laos, while he was in charge of the Deputy Chief of Operations of Division 316, while the Plain of Jars-Xieng Khouang Campaign was entering its most fierce phase.

The manuscript of the unfinished memoir titled “The Road I Traveled” by Martyr Le Van Dy has become a relic, sent by his comrades to his family, and today is introduced to readers by the Soldier's Heart Organization and the People's Army Publishing House.

The Soldier's Heart Organization donated a collection of reconstructed portraits to the Vietnam Women's Museum. (Photo: PV/Vietnam+)

Also on this occasion, the Soldier's Heart Organization and the Vietnam Women's Museum introduced the collection "Pride of Vietnamese Women" including more than 20 restored portraits of female martyrs "Forever 20 years old" such as: Nguyen Thi Minh Khai (1910-1941), Vo Thi Sau (1933-1952), Mac Thi Buoi (1927-1951), Le Thi Hong Gam (1951-1970), Le Thi Rieng (1925-1968), Hoang Ngan (1921-1949), Dang Thuy Tram (1942-1970)...

The collection also includes the first four leaders of the Vietnam Women's Union: Le Thi Xuyen (1909-1996), Nguyen Thi Thap (1908-1996), Ha Thi Que (1921-2012) and Nguyen Thi Dinh (1920-1992).

The collection was created by a group of young artists from the Soldier's Heart Organization, using color restoration technology from black and white documents, recreating the pure and proud beauty of Vietnamese women through each period./.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/song-lai-tinh-than-dau-co-giac-la-ta-cu-di-qua-hoi-ky-anh-hung-liet-sy-post1070483.vnp