When learning of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's death, Mr. Nguyen Huu Luu (born in 1948, from Phuc Dong ward, Long Bien district, Hanoi) asked his children and grandchildren to wish to go to the National Funeral House (No. 5). Tran Thanh Tong) visited the General Secretary.
Before arriving at the National Funeral House, Mr. Luu followed every hour and every minute of the National Funeral of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Mr. Liu joined the army in 1965. During the fierce resistance war against the US, he lost his right arm.
"President Ho Chi Minh passed away while I was on the battlefield, unable to attend his funeral. Now that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has passed away, I have returned, I must go" - Mr. Luu said.
Not far away, Mr. Nguyen Song Thao (78 years old) in Ho Chi Minh City said he was very sorry for the General Secretary, a simple, dedicated leader who worked until the last moments of his life. for country.
Even though her limbs were gradually weakening and she had to use a cane to walk, from 4:00 a.m. on July 26, Ms. Tran Thi Thuc Oanh still asked her children and grandchildren to book a taxi to visit General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
As a military doctor and revolutionary soldier, Ms. Tran Thi Thuc Oanh (Hanoi) spent 38 years participating in combat service in the Resistance War against the French, the Resistance Against the Americans and the Fight to Protect the Northern Border of the Fatherland (Vi Xuyen battlefield, Ha Giang). Recalling the years of resistance, in addition to her main professional work, Ms. Oanh and her teammates cleared fields, farmed fields, dug tunnels, built shacks, carried rice, carried stretchers of wounded soldiers, loaded ammunition... all over the battlefields.
"I don't understand why at that time I wasn't afraid of death, didn't think about death; wasn't afraid of bombs, my spirit was determined to liberate the South and unify the country" - Ms. Oanh said.
On the morning of July 26, after visiting General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Ms. Oanh sat and rested at the gate of the National Funeral House. On the face of the female battlefield doctor, sadness could not be hidden. However, she also felt satisfied when today she was able to visit and say goodbye to the head of the Communist Party of Vietnam .