After 38 years, pains and wounds causing by wars remain on mothers' eyes!
The mother is a secret base
Heroic Vietnamese mother Ung Thi Nung living at An Dien commune, Ben Cat district is 85 years old but still has a sound mind with a gentle smile on her face. Mother Nung’s husband and two sons are martyrs.
Mother Ung Thi Nung beside her husband and sons’ images
In 1968, her second son Truong Van Loi died as a scout commando of the district’s squad. One year later, her youngest son Truong Van Choi passed away at Thanh An battlefield (Dau Tieng district).
She talked about years of expectations and then heard bad news of her beloved ones with a sorrowful face.
Her great sacrifice was repaid. Peace was restored. The mother, who used to be a secret base servicing the national resistance war, is now living happily in small house filled with her descendants’ laughter.
Every day, mother Nung wakes up early to clean up the house and cooks herself. Sometimes, she contemplates speechlessly images of husband and sons and remembers a period of the fierce war.
Five times of silent cry…
Heroic Vietnamese mother Nguyen Thi Mua made an special impression by her humor, a kind face and her warm hands, although she is now 100 years old.
Binh Duong Newspaper commits to supporting mother Nguyen Thi Mua until her life end.
Mother Mua was born in 1914 and is living at Hoa My, Dinh Hoa ward, TDM City. She was the fourth child in a 9 children family. Then she married Nguyen Van Huong and helped her husband to supply troops. Her couple became a firm secret base of revolutionary soldiers. Then her husband was arrested and tortured. She used her intelligence to get her husband released.
Her sons and daughter then joined the army. Her daughter Huynh Thi Tang servicing local struggle movements was arrested and tortured until dead. Her son Huynh Dac Thang worked for provincial financial board, died at Ho Bo, Dau Tieng district while on his duty of money transferring for Iron Triangle base.
Huynh Van Quan, Huynh Thi Quoi and Huynh Thi Chin enlisted as revolutionary soldiers and then passed away at fierce battlefields. Five times of hearing bad news was five times that her bowels were cut by U.S. enemies. However, she believed, her children sacrificed for the great thing, the great revolutionary career.
Now she is living happily with her son Huynh Duc Khai, who was born in 1955, in a house full of memories. Mr. Khai is content with care from local government and enterprises. His only wish is that his mother could live happily to a great age.
Reported by Tam Trang – Translated by Ngoc Huynh
