Awards presented for the writing and storytelling contest "Love in War".

The Organizing Committee hopes that the community will show concern, gratitude, and respect for the soldiers, those who silently dedicated their youth to the country and sacrificed themselves in war.

When war broke out, countless young people sacrificed their personal happiness to go to the battlefield and fight for national independence. Among them were the talented and beautiful couple Tran Minh Tien and Vu Luu Lien.

The two shared a pure and innocent love, but they chose to set aside their personal feelings to contribute to a common cause – love for their country. Their love did not have a happy ending, as Tran Minh Tien sacrificed his life, but through their letters and writings to each other, they spread a noble ideal of a generation in their twenties sacrificing for their nation.

That love story was adapted and compiled into the work "Life Lives On" by writer, poet, and Colonel Dang Vuong Hung, consisting of two parts: "Returning in a Dream" and "Love Letters That Passed Through the War."

The work was awarded First Prize in the writing and storytelling contest "Love in War." The closing ceremony and awards presentation took place at the Vietnam Women's Museum ( Hanoi ) on December 16th.

The writing and storytelling campaign "Love in War" was organized by the Vietnamese Soldiers' Hearts organization in collaboration with the Vietnam Women's Museum and the "Forever 20" Club, starting in July 2020.

The program aims to uncover beautiful and touching love stories that helped officers and soldiers overcome hardships, difficulties, and bombs, while also celebrating the silent sacrifices of women on the home front in building love and family happiness to give strength to those on the front lines.

Writer, poet, and Colonel Dang Vuong Hung shared his thoughts on the writing and storytelling campaign "Love in War." (Photo: PV/Vietnam+)

To date, after 5 years of implementation, the Organizing Committee has published and distributed hundreds of works with profound humanistic significance; and collected and donated hundreds of artifacts to the Vietnam Women's Museum.

Besides the First Prize awarded to the work "Life Lives On" by martyr Tran Minh Tien (1945-1968), the Organizing Committee awarded Joint Prizes to 7 works: "War Soldier" (battlefield diary by Pham Huu Tham), "Battlefield and Homeland" (memoir by Phan Van Lai), "Forever a Soldier" (autobiography by Dang Ngoc Da), "Phuong" (autobiography by Pham Kieu Phuong), "Southern Campaign, Northern War" (autobiography by Ha Minh Son), "Runner-up Cinderella" (autobiography by Le Thy Binh), and "Homeland in the Heart of a Soldier" (collection of essays by Dang Sy Ngoc).

As part of the program, the Organizing Committee also introduced a collection of portraits of "Private Soldiers in Wartime." According to Colonel Dang Vuong Hung, the founder of the "Heart of a Soldier" organization, privates and corporals were the most frequently killed in war. Most of them fell at the age of 18-20, while still possessing the enthusiasm, innocence, and purity of youth.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/trao-giai-cuoc-van-dong-viet-va-ke-chuyen-tinh-yeu-trong-chien-tranh-post1083409.vnp