Crossing Truong Son twice!

That is the title of the fourth book on the subject of war by author Kim Toan, former reporter of Giai Phong Newspaper. On July 23, 2023, on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27, in the Port City - Hai Phong , more than 100 friends, colleagues, journalists and writers held a discussion to launch the precious book. The auditorium was full of fresh flowers, congratulatory smiles, and even tears of emotion for the wounded soldier and journalist Kim Toan. A writer friend asked Kim Toan:

- In the book, he describes the touching, beautiful, pure, and innocent feelings of the young female volunteers for the soldier and journalist Kim Toan on their way to battle, even though it was just a brief meeting next to a bomb crater, next to a bridge pier that had just been plowed by American bombs.

Pausing for a moment, the writer repeated what Kim Toan confided:

- The young volunteer girl named Man hugged Kim Toan and whispered, "When you return victorious, remember to stop by my hometown by the Ngan Pho River to get married, my dear!"

Author Kim Toan, in 2023, has passed the age of 83, smiled brightly, stood up and answered the question posed by his fellow writer:

- Set in the context of an extremely fierce war, between the coordinates of fire Truong Bon, Dong Loc Intersection, Tam Co Cave on the vital Highway 20, where life and death are in the hair's breadth, the humane, precious love that the young girls have for the soldiers they have never met, and do not know where the soldiers are from, or what their family background is like, is real.

Recalling the beautiful memories on Truong Son road, Kim Toan's heart stopped beating, her eyes filled with tears, she was moved:

- In that life and death, not only a certain Man and Kim Toan but also thousands of girls, thousands of soldiers who were all in the most beautiful age of their lives, had very humane, very real and humane feelings. When we reached the inner military station, our marching group received the bad news, just over 3 hours after the meeting on that road, American planes dropped bombs on the battlefield - the key road, Man and almost the entire youth volunteer company were wiped out.

Kim Toan recounted in his blood-soaked pages, the battle routes in Zone VI, the extreme South Central region, the enemy rained down bombs and bullets, rubbing back and forth, snipers, cluster bombs, magnetic bombs, time-explosive mines scattered all over the key points, soldiers and youth volunteers, firemen on the eastern and western flanks fought side by side, protecting the safety, continuity, connecting the Zone V front with the B2 front. The first person fell, the next person replaced, reinforcements for the fronts were layered upon layer.

The pages written “Twice Crossing Truong Son” by Kim Toan, as well as in the work “May Chuong Giang Mon” by Thanh Liem, a former reporter of the Liberation News Agency, later a reporter of the Vietnam News Agency in Thuan Hai - Binh Thuan and Ninh Thuan, show how beautiful love is on the Truong Son road, where enemy bombs and bullets can fall at any time, day or night. The love between soldiers is above all. And thanks to that, their spiritual strength is multiplied, so that they have the courage and faith to overcome all dangers, no bomb or bullet can subdue them.

On War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27, 2023, everyone remembers the painful numbers, although the statistics may not be complete: The whole country has about 8,000,000 soldiers from many branches setting foot on the legendary Truong Son road. Journalist - soldier Kim Toan crossed Truong Son twice - marching on foot from North to South and vice versa from South to North. The whole country has 1,146,250 martyrs, more than 200,000 martyrs' remains have not been found, bodies still lie on Truong Son road and battlefields; more than 300,000 martyrs have been gathered but their names, hometowns, and units have not been identified; more than 800,000 wounded soldiers and people enjoying policies like wounded soldiers... Binh Thuan is in the top group with many wounded soldiers - martyrs, families of policy beneficiaries; one of the leading localities in implementing the policy of gratitude, remembering the source of water when drinking.

“Crossing Truong Son twice” – a miniature part of the “confrontation” between justice and injustice, the anti-invaders and the invaders!

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