Famous female singer reveals beautiful love story of her Colonel father during wartime

In 1964, when he was just 21 years old, singer Thai Trinh's father went "going to B" - the way Northerners refer to the journey to the South to fight. The 6-month, 25-day march on the Truong Son road with countless hardships was the beginning of a 23-year journey of holding a gun to protect the Fatherland.

From an ordinary soldier, the father became a battalion commander and then head of the division's reconnaissance team. He participated in nearly 1,000 large and small battles, with more than 100 close calls, fighting across the Southeast front, Saigon - Cho Lon in the Ho Chi Minh Campaign. Not only that, he also participated in the attack on the Pol Pot base on the Thai border, the capture of the Phnom Penh palace and the Vietnam - China border war.

"My dad told me that once while he was sitting in a Jeep, he sensed something was wrong, so he told everyone to get out of the car. Only the driver didn't get out. After he had gone 10 meters away from the car, the Jeep exploded because of an enemy mine," Thai Trinh recounted.

To this day, the father still bears the scars of war. A bullet lodged in his eye socket for more than 50 years, he still "leaves it there without removing it". The constant torment of malaria. The memories of his comrades who died, of the nights crawling through enemy bunkers without a single piece of clothing...

"Each memory my father told sounded calm, but that was what a young man in his twenties had to go through along with many other comrades of the same age who sacrificed themselves for the Fatherland," Thai Trinh expressed.

Amidst the fierce bombs and bullets, a beautiful love story blossomed. The father, while on a reconnaissance mission to cut through the forest, was detained for investigation when he passed by Thai Trinh's mother's unit in Cambodia. From that fateful encounter, the love between "Uncle Ho's soldier and the female medical soldier of the T1 pharmaceutical factory" began.

"My father and mother sent 100 handwritten letters during the 4-5 years they were apart, each on a different battlefield," Thai Trinh emotionally shared about her parents' beautiful love during wartime.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day, Thai Trinh said: "There is nothing more precious than having my father, living proof of those fierce years, to celebrate this important day of the country with."

At the end of her emotional sharing, Thai Trinh expressed her deep pride: "If there is a next life, I still want to be your child, if there is a next life, I still want to be Vietnamese."

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