The association of Nai Cuu village, Trieu Thanh commune, Trieu Phong district, who used to live in Uan Nam village, Lien Thuy commune, organized a meeting in 2021 - Photo: XH
Although life in a foreign land is not without difficulties, the love for the country, the revolutionary spirit, especially the care and sharing of the people of Quang Binh have helped them quickly integrate and become deeply attached to this land. Many of them have become husband and wife with Quang Binh girls. These relationships are not only private but also a symbol of the strong bond between two homelands that were once separated by war but are connected by human love.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan, living in Quang Tri town, confided that in 1954, her father gathered in the North and was assigned to work in Quang Binh. More than 10 years later, her father married a woman in Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province and gave birth to 5 children. With the help of the government and people of Dai village, Hoa Trach commune, her family soon stabilized their lives. The children were able to study properly, and most of them later worked in state agencies.
Sharing the same story, journalist Nguyen Duc Dieu, former official of the Journalists Association of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, shared that, implementing the Geneva Agreement, in August 1954, along with many people from Nai Cuu village, Trieu Thanh commune, Trieu Phong district, his family was allowed by the revolutionary government of Quang Tri province to gather in the North. From the Ba Long resistance base, after more than 10 days of trekking through forests and streams, 8 family members walked together to Lien Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, Quang Binh province. Everyone's feet were blistered and bleeding.
Seeing the prosperous landscape in Le Thuy, the crowded villages, the green trees, lying along the banks of the gentle and cool Kien Giang River, the three men decided to ask the local government to temporarily reside in Uan Ao village, Lien Thuy commune to do business and live, waiting for two years after the general election, the country was peaceful and unified, then brought the family back to their hometown. No one expected that after more than twenty years in the North, the dream of returning to the place of birth of the family members would become a reality.
The beloved Uan Ao village has become a second homeland filled with happy and sad memories that will never fade in the minds of Mr. Dieu's family members. Leaving with nothing, the first days of living in a foreign land encountered many difficulties and shortages, but in return, his family received warm affection. The government and people here wholeheartedly helped the people from the South to regroup. The local people were willing to share food and clothes, let the people from Quang Tri stay, and even shared their fields and cattle to increase production.
Determined to stay in the North for a long time, Mr. Dieu's family and the people of Nai Cuu village gathered and asked the local government to let them move to the border area between Uan Ao and My Trach village, My Thuy commune (Quang Binh) to reclaim land, build houses and stabilize their lives. At first, the new village had only 6 houses, then it became increasingly crowded with 24 households and more than 120 people.
In 1958, during the movement to build agricultural cooperatives in the North, in response to the wishes of the people, the local government decided to allow families from the South to gather and settle in Uan Ao village to establish an agricultural cooperative, named Uan Nam Agricultural Cooperative. The government granted the cooperative 20 hectares of land, a few buffaloes and cows, and some farming tools.
On the opening day of the cooperative, everyone was as happy as a festival, “drums beat, flags were raised”, pigs were slaughtered for a celebration party. In nearly 18 years of existence, Uan Nam Agricultural Cooperative has become a common home, providing full meals and warm clothes for the people of Nai Cuu village.
Although small in scale, every year the cooperative exceeds its obligations to the state, contributing a lot of rice to help the North support the army and people in the South to fight the enemy. In addition to its main occupation of farming, Uan Nam Agricultural Cooperative also builds duck incubators, providing duck breeds for the people of Lien Thuy commune and some neighboring areas to develop livestock farming.
Over 21 years of living in Quang Binh, the members of the Uan Nam Cooperative have left a beautiful mark of their spirit of work, solidarity and will to rise up. They enthusiastically work, produce, build a strong cooperative, and participate in thousands of working days of irrigation, building dikes to prevent floods, building roads, and filling bomb craters. The children of the families are cared for, raised and educated properly.
Many young people in Uan Nam village graduated from high school and continued their studies to serve the cause of building their homeland and country. Many of them grew up to become principals, general directors of large enterprises, leaders of press agencies, the Provincial Labor Federation, etc. After the complete liberation of the South, most of the families in Nai Cuu village settled in Uan Ao and returned to their hometowns, but their new hometown of Uan Ao and the Uan Nam Agricultural Cooperative remained in their memories.
Talking to us, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hoa, former General Director of SGS Rubber Investment Joint Stock Company, said that after the Geneva Agreement in 1954, his father - Mr. Nguyen Chiu gathered in the North and settled in Uan Ao village, Lien Thuy commune, Le Thuy district. Here, he met Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ta and got married. In 1956, Mr. Hoa was born.
During that period, his family faced many difficulties but was taken care of and loved by the neighbors. Like many children here, he was able to go to school and get a good education. In 1977, his father brought the whole family back to his hometown in Nai Cuu village, Trieu Thanh commune, Trieu Phong district. Later, people who used to live in Uan Ao village established a fellow countrymen's association to maintain their feelings, bond, and help each other like family.
Mr. Duong Tien Dung, Hoa Trach commune, Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province shared that he had traveled to many places in the province and heard many touching stories about Quang Tri youth who gathered and stayed in Quang Binh. They left a deep impression of the spirit of overcoming difficulties and sacrificing for the homeland during wartime.
Mr. Dung’s family also has many relatives, including his aunt, uncle and siblings, who used to live in Quang Binh. Although they returned to Quang Tri after the war, they still visit each year, nurturing the strong bond between the two homelands and two warm, intact families.
Nguyen Vinh
Source: https://baoquangtri.vn/hai-que-huong-mot-mai-nha-194366.htm
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