The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has organised various activities to pay tribute to war martyrs and invalids, including those of the agency, on the occasion of the 72ndt Day of War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).
Deputy Director General Dinh Dang Quang presents gifts to war invalids and ill soldiers at the nursing centre for national contriubtors in Phu Tho province. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) has organised variousactivities to pay tribute to war martyrs and invalids on the occasion of the 72nd Day of War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).
A delegation led by VNA Deputy Director General Dinh Dang Quang visited andpresented gifts to war invalids and ill soldiers at a nursing centre fornational contributors in the northern province of Phu Tho on July 27.
Meanwhile, a delegation of VNA’s representative office in the southern regionin collaboration with medical workers from Ho Chi Minh City on July 27 organiseda programme to provide free health check-ups for and present gifts to Statepolicy families and disadvantaged ethnic people in Phuoc Nam commune, Thuan Namdistrict, south central province of Ninh Thuan.
Since its establishment on September 15, 1945, the VNA has always been loyal tothe Party and people’s revolutionary cause. During the wars for nationalindependence, the agency’s correspondents and technicians were present at allbattlefields to report on the victories of the army and people across thecountry and expose crimes and plots by enemies.
More than 260 VNA journalists were killed on duty during the war,which was a great loss but also a pride of the VNA - the first press agencyawarded the titles of the hero of the people’s armed forces and the labour heroduring the renewal period.
The Vietnam Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27) is a special chance for theentire country to commemorate millions of martyrs and war invalids whosacrificed their lives and health during the wars.
In 1947, just two years after President Ho Chi Minh delivered the declarationof independence, the first decree on preferential policies for war invalids andfallen soldiers was issued.
The same year, July 27 was designated as the national war invalids day, whichwas later renamed the War Invalids and Martyrs Day, to call on the entirecommunity to support war invalids and martyrs’ families in acknowledgement oftheir contributions to the nation.-VNA
Incumbent and former leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee offered flowers and incense to martyrs at the Martyrs’ Monument in Hanoi on July 26 on the occasion of the 72nd Day of War Invalids and Martyrs (July 27).
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Deputy Director General Dinh Dang Quang presents gifts to war invalids and ill soldiers at the nursing centre for national contriubtors in Phu Tho province. (Photo: VNA) 
