Starting in 1960, the “demobilized” soldiers were allowed to return home to bring their families to settle down. Hearing the news, everyone was happy. The old soldiers began to plan to bring their relatives back to their new homeland.
Mr. Pham Duc Cu, 94 years old this year, a former artillery soldier at the Dien Bien front, laughed out loud when recalling this memory. After the 2-year campaign, on one occasion returning to his hometown of Hung Ha, Thai Binh , he got married and then… left for good following a new mission. The letters had to cross the mountains and forests, passing through Pha Di Heaven Gate, so it took a whole month to receive them. Unable to bear being away from her husband, his wife decided to take her child back to the Northwest.
“She brought just one trunk of clothes, carried her child to Hanoi , waited at Kim Lien bus station for 17 days before catching a bus. Then another 2 weeks to get to Dien Bien,” he recalled.
Veteran Pham Duc Cu. (PHOTO: NHAT QUANG)
But when she got there, she didn’t know where to find him, so she kept asking as she walked. The exhausted 2-year-old child would occasionally startle and cry. Luckily, she met the President of the Dien Bien District Women’s Association at that time, so she was taken away.
“At that time, seeing my wife holding the child and looking for her husband, I almost cried, happy and sad. Happy because the whole family was reunited, but worried because everything was still so difficult, not knowing how to raise each other to adulthood,” Mr. Cu choked up.
At the same time, at C17 Thanh Tuong, veteran Tran Quang Huu was also busy preparing for the trip to the lowland area of Binh Luc to pick up his wife. As a soldier driver, taking advantage of his work in Ha Nam Ninh, he asked his superior for permission to stop by his house to bring his family along. When permission was granted, Mr. Huu could not sleep the night before departure. Joy filled the young soldier's chest as the dream of reunion was very close.
The train stopped at Binh Luc station. Mr. Huu ran back. Seeing her husband, Mrs. Nu threw down her shoulder pole and burst into tears.
- Will you go to the Northwest with me this trip? If you go, prepare now.
After more than 60 years, Mrs. Tran Thi Nu still remembers clearly the first words her husband asked. It didn't take long for her to nod. After about half a day of preparation, greeting relatives and neighbors, the little girl, then only 25 years old, silently followed her husband to Binh Luc station. The two people's silhouettes swayed in the sunset of the lowland.
Now, she still smiles when she recalls it. She said: Although at that time, she heard that Dien Bien was far away, she still loved her husband and wanted to be close to him. "We lived far apart, when would we ever have children? I still thought, everything will be okay, wherever he is, that is home."
Not long after, the first son of the young soldier and farmer Tran Quang Huu and his wife cried out at birth in Dien Bien. The cry echoed, like the belief in happiness sprouting on the old battlefield full of bombs and bullets…
Source: https://thoidai.com.vn/nhung-hat-mam-cua-hanh-phuc-199459.html
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