Five posthumously honoured with "Heroic Vietnamese Mother" title in HCM City
Ho Chi Minh City's authorities held a ceremony on August 2 to posthumously confer the State's noble title of “Heroic Vietnamese Mother” to five women whose husbands and children laid down their lives in the struggle for national liberation, construction and protection.
Politburo member and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (3rd from right) presents the the "Heroic Vietnamese Mother" title certicates to family members of the five heroic mothers. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City's authorities held a ceremonyon August 2 to posthumously confer the State's noble title of “Heroic VietnameseMother” to five women whose husbands and children laid down their lives in thestruggle for national liberation, construction and protection.
Also at the ceremony, the title of “Hero of the People'sArmed Forces” was posthumously bestowed upon Phan Van Han (alias Hai Sang), a martyr who sacrificed during theMau Than General Offensive and Uprising in spring 1968. Han joined revolutionaryactivities at the age of 15 and went through two resistance wars in manydifferent positions from a liaison officer to a district-level official.
Speaking at the ceremony, Politburo member and Secretary ofthe municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen stressed that the VietnameseParty, State and people always remember the noble sacrifices of heroes andmartyrs and the great contributions of heroic mothers.
The official requested local sectors, authorities, andpeople pay more attention to caring for alive heroic mothers and to the education of youngergenerations on their duties in response to the nation’s revolutionary history.
After two wars, Vietnam recorded more than 1.146 millionfallen heroes, 172,000 heroic mothers, and 800,000 wounded and sick soldiers. HCMCity is home to 5,470 heroic mothers, of whom 108 are still alive./.
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Politburo member and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen (3rd from right) presents the the "Heroic Vietnamese Mother" title certicates to family members of the five heroic mothers. (Photo: VNA) 
