Grateful candles
On July 26, union members and young people of the Quang Tri Provincial Youth Union carried out cleaning at the graves at the Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery and Truong Son National Martyrs Cemetery.
Next, the youth union members offered flowers and incense and at night lit thousands of candles to pay tribute to the heroic martyrs. At the same time, the youth of the whole province also organized a candlelighting gratitude program at martyrs' cemeteries and memorials throughout the province.
Candles flicker on martyrs' graves, making the cemeteries glow.
Not only lighting candles of gratitude, in this July, the "Gratitude" movement is actively deployed by agencies and units with many diverse, lively forms of activities with socio-political significance. extensive. Thereby, people from all walks of life were mobilized to participate, thanks to which the work of gratitude truly became a voluntary activity of all people.
During the days of July, Quang Tri province also organized visits and gave gifts to people who contributed to the revolution and their relatives. Carefully organize the reception of delegations of local leaders and people to visit martyrs' cemeteries in the area.
Present at the gratitude trip in Quang Tri, Mr. Nguyen Chi Dung - Minister of Planning and Investment - shared that July 27 every year is an opportunity for the entire people and army to express their remembrance, honor and gratitude. the great contributions of heroic martyrs, wounded and sick soldiers, heroic Vietnamese Mothers, people who contributed to the revolution. Over the past time, preferential policies for people with meritorious services to the revolution have been constantly researched, revised, supplemented and implemented systematically and seriously. The lives of people with meritorious services and policy families are constantly improved both materially and spiritually.
On this occasion, the working group of the Ministry of Planning and Investment including the trade union and youth union of the ministry awarded more than 350 gifts worth hundreds of millions of VND and 10 great solidarity houses to policy families, people with meritorious services in Quang Tri.
“Quang Tri rules the whole country, the whole country rules Quang Tri”
Mr. Ha Sy Dong - Permanent Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Tri province - said that Quang Tri province has, on behalf of the people of the country, taken care of more than 60,000 graves of martyrs who are children of provinces and cities nationwide. thoughtful and respectful in the spirit of "Quang Tri for the whole country, the whole country for Quang Tri". The system of martyrs' cemeteries in the province has gradually been invested and renovated to become more and more spacious.
"On holidays and Tet, martyrs' graves are filled with the warm incense and smoke of grateful hearts" - Mr. Ha Sy Dong said.
According to Mr. Ha Sy Dong, the locality has been active in vocational training, creating jobs to increase income for relatives of martyrs, children of wounded and sick soldiers, and children of families of people with meritorious services to the revolution; Help policy families facing difficulties in life and production and business development. Mobilize resources to continue supporting households of people with difficult achievements to improve housing.
To further enhance the "Gratitude" movement, the province will focus on resolving backlogs, difficulties and obstacles in implementing preferential policies for people with meritorious services; Continue to perform well the work of searching, gathering, and burying martyrs' graves; Build and upgrade cemeteries and martyrs' memorial works to become cultural and historical works, aiming to educate revolutionary traditions for generations...
