Leaders and youth of Ho Chi Minh City light candles to pay tribute to heroic martyrs

On the evening of April 26, at the Ho Chi Minh City Martyrs Cemetery, the City Youth Union held a candlelighting ceremony to pay tribute to heroic martyrs on the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 – May 7, 2019). 2024) and celebrate the 49th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and national unification (April 30, 1975 – April 30, 2024).

At the resting place of 15,000 heroic martyrs, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Ho Hai, leaders, former leaders of the city and nearly 1,000 union members and young people spent a moment of silence, offered incense and Expressing deep gratitude to the heroic children of the great motherland, the soldiers who decided to die for the Fatherland.

On behalf of the young generation to express gratitude, Deputy Political Commissar of Gia Dinh Regiment, Ngo Truong An City Command, expressed before his father’s spirit, the city’s youth vow to be worthy of being the next generation to inherit the proud tradition. hero, using intelligence and patriotism to prove that the great victory in the spring of 1975 of the Vietnamese people is the torch that lights the way for young generations of Vietnam through the years.

After the incense offering ceremony to commemorate the heroic martyrs, the delegates offered incense and lit candles in gratitude to the heroic martyrs at the graves.

On the same day, youth union members simultaneously organized candle lighting at all cemeteries in the city.