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In the article “President Ho Chi Minh and the cause of liberating the South and unifying the country”, Associate Professor, Dr. Tran Thi Minh Tuyet emphasized: “In Ho Chi Minh’s thought , national independence is a sacred and inviolable right, but true independence must necessarily be associated with unity and territorial integrity. This is a matter of principle, so in President Ho Chi Minh, the will to protect national independence always goes hand in hand with the will to fight for national unification”.

Assessing the significance and lessons of the April 30, 1975 Victory, the publication introduces the article “The Great Victory of Spring 1975 - Lessons for the cause of building the Army, strengthening national defense, and protecting the Fatherland in the new situation” by General, Dr. Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense . According to Minister Phan Van Giang, in the current context, the lessons of the Great Victory of Spring 1975 still retain their value and need to be continued to be studied, inherited and creatively applied to the practice of building the Army, strengthening national defense, and protecting the Fatherland in the new situation.

Referring to promoting national strength with the strength of the times to enhance Vietnam's position, Ms. Ton Nu Thi Ninh (Chairwoman of the Ho Chi Minh City Peace and Development Foundation) said: The process of negotiating and signing the Paris Agreement in 1973 left us with many profound lessons, of great significance in the current situation, including lessons on promoting the strength of national solidarity and international solidarity.

Taking up most of the space in the special issue are stories and memories of the time told by those involved. That is “The Story of 11 Girls of the Perfume River”, on the night of February 11, 1968, 11 hot guns full of hatred from 11 female guerrillas fired accurate rounds into the enemy formation, knocking down 25 of the front men, pinning down an entire battalion of American soldiers.

Readers know the image of the People's Armed Forces Hero Doan Duc Thai (Regiment 271) in the article "Death by the eighth fence". When the explosives team successively blew up seven layers of enemy fences, when they reached the eighth fence, Doan Duc Thai decided to hold the explosive tube to prevent it from sliding down the slope and then used his hand to pull the flare. The flash of fire from the 1m-long explosive cleared the fence for his comrades to charge forward, while his body dissolved into the mother earth...

“Entering the Independence Palace while his shirt was still soaked in blood” is the image of Political Commissar Nguyen Huu Cu in Battalion 1, Tank Brigade 203. The character recounts the times he was wounded but still fought with his comrades; about the memories surrounding the black and white photo taken by a foreign reporter on April 30, 1975 at the Independence Palace. It is a gaunt, haggard face, with blood stains on his head and arms that have not yet dried.

In “The Epic Song of the Suicide Ferry”, People’s Armed Forces Hero Nguyen Dang Che, former Chief of the Ben Thuy Ferry, recounted the last days of 1972 when he and four of his comrades volunteered to take the suicide ferry to destroy 48 magnetic bombs under the Lam River. The departure ceremony was also a “living memorial service” held for him and his comrades...

Colonel Nguyen Van Trinh, former Deputy Brigade Commander and Chief of Staff of the 550th Engineer Brigade, told of his participation in three liberation offensives at all three urban levels. He was wounded many times in his fighting life, but he did not apply for the disabled soldier regime, following the advice of a superior officer: "We are commanders, and if we can command troops, we should not worry about trivial injuries."

Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Thanh Hung wrote an article titled "The first night of peace, Hanoi does not sleep!". The author was a student who joined the 308th Division in 1973. Due to his injuries, he had to be discharged and return to university to continue his studies. More than 10 wounded soldiers from the Literature class were allowed to share a room in the dormitory to help each other. On the night of April 30, 1975, the entire "wounded soldiers' room" helped each other walk to Hoan Kiem Lake to celebrate the victory. "The road from the dormitory to Hoan Kiem Lake was 12km long, but at that time we still felt it was short. The wounded soldiers on crutches followed the group, without needing anyone to carry them. They had carried backpacks, waded through streams, climbed passes, and crossed thousands of kilometers of Truong Son to have this road to celebrate the victory. What is a dozen kilometers on an asphalt road?"

The publication also introduces the important contributions of a team that both wrote and fought with guns. They are writer and martyr Duong Thi Xuan Quy - a noble ideal; journalist Tran Mai Huong, who took the historic photo "Liberation Army tanks entering the Independence Palace at noon on April 30, 1975"... In the article "Thach Kim, Thach Nhon", readers get to know the prototype of the character in the poem "To you, the volunteer girl" by poet Pham Tien Duat. In addition to the memory of almost being disciplined on the Dong Loc battlefield for "daring to lie that Thach Kim was Thach Nhon", former volunteer Le Thi Nhi also told about the time she went to Hanoi to visit poet Pham Tien Duat while he was in the hospital; when poet Pham Tien Duat passed away, she packed her bags and went to Hanoi, standing among the crowd of people seeing him off with tears in her eyes. Her heart was filled with emotion because she had just said goodbye to a confidant, a part of her heroic youth memories...

The special publication also includes notes, interviews, essays, photos, documents... by authors who are generals, experts, writers, journalists, musicians; and contributions from domestic and foreign authors.

The special issue of the People's Army Newspaper includes 100 pages, rich content, beautiful presentation, selling price: 4,200 VND, released on April 28, 2025. Readers are invited to read and order at post offices or newspaper distribution agents nationwide.

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