The traveling group held a flag-raising ceremony "I love my Fatherland" at Lao Bao international border gate
Although the journey of Borders, Seas, and Islands in my heart is not long, it has left many marks in the hearts of each young person, especially thinking about patriotism and the responsibility of young people to the Fatherland's borders whether on the sea or at sea. land.
Mr. NGO MINH HAI (Permanent Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union, Chairman of Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City)
Journey 'Borders, seas, islands in my heart': Travel to understand
Regarding the reason for choosing Quang Tri as the destination, Standing Vice President of the Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City Doan Truong Quang said this province has a border of hundreds of kilometers and a long coastline. But more importantly, that land has gone through many fierce wars, and is also the place that suffered the pain of separation for more than twenty years from the 17th parallel.
During the two days of the journey, 110 delegates who were officers of the Union - Association - Team and many young writers and artists of Ho Chi Minh City were present in meaningful activities.
At the special national relic site of Quang Tri Citadel - a place mentioned in connection with the tragic 81-day and night war - you participated in the flag-raising ceremony "I love my Fatherland" in a quite special space.
You visit Truong Son National Martyrs Cemetery and Road 9 National Martyrs Cemetery.
The journey arrived with officers and soldiers at Border Guard Stations: Thuan, Thanh and Ba Floor (Huong Hoa district) and A Vao Border Guard Station (Dak Rong district). Each destination helps young people from the city named after Uncle Ho have a clearer sense of where the soldiers are tasked with guarding the Fatherland's borders.
In Gio Linh district, the program "Let's clean the sea" attracted many participants in Gio Hai commune. The program organized examinations and gave medicine to 500 people in difficult circumstances, launching marine tourism promotion activities in this district with a total cost of more than 400 million VND.
Deputy Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Youth Union Trinh Thi Hien Tran (left) gives gifts to disadvantaged people in the Quang Tri border area - Photo: Q.NAM
Spread love for the homeland
The highlight of the journey is the flag-raising program at the Vietnam-Laos border milestone and the art exchange program taking place right in Lia commune, a commune adjacent to the border.
The first time saluting the flag at the border marker brought many different emotions, and was also the time when the hearts of each young person participating in the journey most clearly felt the sacred meaning of the country's sovereignty.
"Standing at the border marker, I feel more clearly the value of independence, the value of the blood and bones our ancestors shed" - Hoang Phuc, a member of the delegation, shared.
The last night, the journey ended with an art program in Lia commune, a place just a few hundred meters from the border that contained so much love and affection from the Artist Volunteer Team (of the Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City). ) to serve officers, soldiers, and people in the border area of Huong Hoa district.
The exchange night ended in a rough farewell between the children from the sunny land of the South and the people on the border of the Central region.
Mr. Doan Truong Quang said that Ho Chi Minh City Association - Ho Chi Minh City Association hopes that through this journey, it will continue to spread love for the homeland, country, and attachment to borders, seas, and islands in the hearts of young people. Out of gratitude for the merits and sacrifices of previous generations in exchange for peace and national independence, each young person in Ho Chi Minh City will choose for themselves a beautiful and useful way to live.
It is also the emotional attachment of the youth and people of Ho Chi Minh City to the heroic land of Quang Tri. So that every young person will constantly be creative, dare to think, dare to do, serve the people, and join hands to build a rich and powerful Fatherland. "Hopefully each member participating in this journey will be a propagandist, an ambassador to spread love for the homeland, love and cherish the value of peace" - Mr. Quang expressed.
Along with the series of activities that took place over the two days, on the last afternoon before ending the journey in Quang Tri, the group officially started construction of a charity house to donate to a disadvantaged household in the border commune of Lia (Huong district). Chemistry). In particular, Vietnam Youth Union of Ho Chi Minh City supported 70 million VND to carry out the project.
Border guards at the fence
