For the wives of soldiers on DK1 oil rig, March 8 gifts sent from the sea to the mainland are sometimes packages of dried sardines, cans of fish marinated for making fish sauce or pounds of fish floss, sometimes just text messages and a rose on the phone screen.
There is no greater gift for a wife than seeing her husband healthy at work. Lieutenant Colonel Pham Van Bay (right) takes care of vegetables with his teammates on the DK1 platform - Photo: MAI THANG
Just that alone makes the soldier's wife feel overwhelmed with happiness, trying to take care of the children to be a support for her husband to feel secure in his duty at sea.
For 16 years, Thanh Hoa girl Le Thi Ngan "fell" for the muscular Thai Binh rice field boy Pham Van Bay. Having two children together, Ms. Ngan remembers clearly the time they met by chance and fell in love.
Ms. LE THI NGAN
Back then, Ngan followed her sister to Vung Tau to do business and without realizing it, she met and "fell in love" with a soldier from the DK1 oil rig. In the Navy's official house, Ms. Ngan reminded Mr. Bay one afternoon to stop by the shop to buy a phone card and borrow her bicycle to "go out and return it in the afternoon".
Even though she didn't know who it was, she still took the risk of lending it to me. It was already dark, but no one returned the bike even though it belonged to her sister. "I was thinking I was being tricked when he suddenly appeared. Only later did he confess that he intentionally came home late to flirt with me. At first, I didn't accept it, but when I found out he was in the army, I accepted it," Ms. Ngan laughed.
The feelings grew stronger day by day, the image of the soldier on the oil rig made her heart flutter even though she accepted the girl's love, both happy and scared. Happy because there was someone to miss, scared because the sea was far away with big waves, and natural disasters were unpredictable! The promise when parting, Mr. Bay was only brief: "Wait for me, I will definitely come back".
Two months after Mr. Bay went to work at the oil rig, Ms. Ngan received a letter from her lover that she said was "the most emotional and touching letter".
It helped her understand the harsh life on the rig, which made her cry because she felt sorry for him, because back then there were no phones like today. To send a letter, she had to wait for the ship to change shifts and ask his teammates to carry it.
After more than a year of being in love, her lover took her around the coast only once, but that was the time the girl from Thanh Hoa decided to tie her life to her husband, a soldier on an oil rig. Married for more than 16 years, the time they spent together can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The family of four also rarely had a chance to get together. She said that sometimes during holidays and Tet, she felt sad when she saw her neighbors getting together, but she always encouraged herself and focused on taking care of her two young children.
The eldest daughter is now preparing to enter secondary school, the youngest son is in primary school. Not yet able to afford to have their own house, the mother and children still live in a room temporarily lent by the government and are always filled with laughter whenever "Dad Bay comes home on leave from the DK1 platform".
Each family has different circumstances and economic conditions, but the wives of soldiers on DK1 rigs all have in common the loyalty, diligence, and hard work that make their husbands feel secure at sea. And Ms. Le Thi Ngan is just one of many such wives of soldiers on DK1 rigs.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/8-3-cua-vo-linh-nha-gian-dk1-20250307102758874.htm
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