From 1965, he joined the army and fought directly with his unit from the battlefields of Laos and Cambodia to the Southeast region until the liberation of the South, then continued to fight to protect the northern border. After going through 4 battlefields, he was wounded 4 times, losing 51% of his strength.

After more than 22 years of military service, returning to civilian life, despite his declining health due to injury, veteran Nguyen Trong Huu still shines with the qualities of Uncle Ho's soldiers in all fields, fulfilling Uncle Ho's teachings: "A disabled soldier is not useless".

Overcoming difficulties, building a movement

After retiring for nearly a year, although the family's economy was still difficult, with his will, determination, and responsibility as a party member, from 1988 to 2012, comrade Huu was elected to hold many positions in the locality, such as: Secretary of the village Party cell, Chairman of the Inspection Committee of the Commune Party Committee; Chairman of the Commune Veterans Association; Vice Chairman of the Hoai Duc District Veterans Association for two terms (2001-2012).

Veteran Nguyen Trong Huu compiles a history of the revolutionary struggle tradition of his hometown Luu Xa village toeducate younger generations. Photo provided by the character

As a political officer in the Army, no matter what position he held, he always respected and complied with the principles in his activities and activities. As Party cell secretary, he always organized to thoroughly educate Party members to fully understand the Party's directives and resolutions, the tasks of the Party cell; implemented the principle of democratic centralism. Built and properly implemented the leadership regulations of the Party cell and Party Committee; at the same time, fully maintained the Party cell's activities such as leadership activities, study activities; self-criticism and criticism activities. Before Party cell activities, Comrade Huu always agreed on the content in the Party cell, especially the draft of the Party cell's regular leadership resolution. Accordingly, he promoted collective intelligence to build a resolution to comprehensively lead the tasks of the village, with high feasibility.

In his position, he is always exemplary in both words and actions, saying goes with doing. He clearly remembers the circumstances of each villager, families who are beneficiaries of policies, people who have contributed to the revolution, especially families with especially difficult circumstances, to have leadership measures to help. Regardless of day or night, cold winter or hot summer, he is always ready to join cadres and mass organizations to visit and encourage people who are sick, ill or have sudden sad events. On holidays and Tet, he actively coordinates to visit and give gifts to local beneficiaries of policies thoughtfully and affectionately.

Being a poor rural area with a small population and limited rice fields, in order to create more jobs and improve people's lives, in early 1991, comrade Huu and the Party cell proposed a policy to open a rice milling factory, which was approved by the leaders of Ha Tay province (now Hanoi), granting the Luu Xa Rice Milling Village a certificate on an area of ​​more than 5,000m2 .

Accordingly, many families also opened this service, attracting hundreds of local workers. Rice milling and processing activities in the village developed dynamically and effectively every day. People here have spread out to buy rice from many places, even to the South to buy rice to mill, process rice, and sell to the market. The quality of milled and processed rice has been increasingly accepted by the market, even many military units have come to buy rice to serve the troops. Since then, the lives of farmers have gradually improved.

In the direction of production development along with rice cultivation, the Party cell led the village to combine business and service development; typically, the development of Chieu Luu Xa market became increasingly bustling, with a variety of goods, attracting people from other communes to come and buy bustling goods. The innovation and development of Luu Xa village from 1988 to the following years made the people's lives increasingly prosperous; the economic development situation, production... had many innovations and improvements. That result had the decisive role of the Party cell and the consensus and determination of the cadres and Party members in the village, including the active contribution of the Party cell Secretary, later the first Chairman of the Commune War Veterans Association, Nguyen Trong Huu.

Along with that, during the two terms as Vice Chairman of the District Veterans Association, Comrade Huu, together with the Association's cadres at all levels, gathered generations of veterans to promote the nature and tradition of Uncle Ho's soldiers and the heroic homeland of Hoai Duc, build clean and strong Associations at all levels, and effectively implement the emulation movement "Exemplary Veterans". He and the Executive Committee of the District Veterans Association proposed the policy of developing a "Cow Bank" by mobilizing cadres and members to donate money to buy more than a dozen cows to give to poor families of members for breeding, contributing to improving their lives and escaping poverty. For many consecutive years, the District Veterans Association has successfully and excellently completed its tasks, and has been commended at all levels. The District Veterans Association is one of the typical units in the emulation movement of the Hanoi City Veterans Association.

Promote responsibility for the community

From 2021 to present, despite his old age and weak health, comrade Huu has always tried to practice and actively participated with the War Veterans Association officials in propagating and mobilizing his family and local people to comply with the policies and laws of the Party and State; and local regulations.

As a member of the reconciliation propaganda team of the Veterans Association, he always upholds his responsibility, with his prestige, together with the Association's Standing Committee and members of the team, successfully reconciled 12 cases of conflicts and disagreements (involving 24 people), mainly divorce, separation, land disputes, misunderstanding of the law... thereby creating consensus and solidarity in the locality. He also, together with the Village Front Working Committee, participated in mobilizing 67 households to hand over land to clear the Ring Road 4 - the area passing through Hanoi, and was praised by the Party Committee, government and people.

In March 2021, responding to the call of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and the policy of the government and organizations at all levels on the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic, despite his old age and not being on the front line against the epidemic, by learning and grasping knowledge about epidemic prevention, Comrade Huu went to each house, checked each subject in the hamlet and alley to encourage people to get vaccinated and implement epidemic prevention and control measures; at the same time, mobilized people to support 2,170 kg of rice, 20 kg of salt, 4 kg of MSG, 5 tons of vegetables, tubers, fruits and 70 million VND. Mr. Huu and his family alone supported 400 kg of rice and 5 million VND for the locality to help families facing difficulties in epidemic prevention and control.

From September 2022 to September 2024, responding to the call of the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the locality to launch a campaign to support overcoming the consequences of storms and floods in the provinces, Comrade Huu and his descendants donated 900kg of rice, 35 sets of clothes, 10 life jackets and 9 million VND.

He also encouraged his children and grandchildren to enthusiastically participate in volunteer groups organized by the Commune People's Committee and, together with spontaneous volunteer groups in the village, transport food, clothes, and essential necessities to support people in disaster areas.

Currently, Mr. Huu is 82 years old, due to disability and declining health, but in accordance with the wishes of the Party Committee, Party cell and people in the village, wishing to have documents recording the history of the revolutionary struggle tradition of the village to educate the tradition for the young generations today and tomorrow; at the same time wishing to restore the two jade genealogical books of Luu Xa village communal house worshiping Emperor Ly Nam De and the genealogical book of "Lao Quan Quan" pagoda in Luu Xa village, he enthusiastically accepted the assignment of the locality to be the chief editor.

With his pension, he bought a computer and printer, and together with the drafting committee, he collected documents, verified and drafted them day and night. After only 10 months, the book had nearly 400 pages of manuscript, and dozens of copies were printed for members of the village and commune steering committees to discuss and give comments 5 times. Currently, the book has been printed and has been enthusiastically received by the Party cell and the people. Another thing worth mentioning is that the money for typing the draft was fully supported by Comrade Huu; although the local leaders expressed their desire to support, he refused and considered it a small contribution to his homeland.

With his bright qualities and responsibilities in everyday life, in September 2024, comrade Nguyen Trong Huu was honored to receive the 60-year Party membership badge; the Duc Giang Commune Party Committee awarded him a certificate of merit for "Party member who completed his tasks excellently" in 2024; for many consecutive years, he was awarded a certificate of merit by the Commune People's Committee and all levels of the Veterans Association for his outstanding achievements in the "Exemplary Veterans" emulation movement; in May 2025, comrade Nguyen Trong Huu was honored by the Hanoi People's Committee as "Good person, good deed" in 2025. His family has also been voted by the villagers as a typical cultural family for many years.

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