In Hanoi the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union held a remembrance service at Tay Tuu Cemetery in the presence of Politburo member and head of the Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai.
At the service local Youth Union members offered incense and flowers and lit candles at the tombs of more than 2,300 fallen soldiers.
The union also presented gifts to heroic Vietnamese mothers and the underprivileged who are veterans and relatives of fallen servicemen.
In Thanh Hoa province the Buddhist congregation held a requiem for fallen heroes laid to rest at Ham Rong Cemetery while Binh Phuoc province held a ceremony to rebury the remains of voluntary soldiers who died in Cambodia’s Kampong Thom and Kratie provinces.
Ceremonies to rebury the remains of Vietnamese soldiers were also conducted in Hau Giang, Quang Tri and Tay Ninh provinces.
On July 26 the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs announced it had identified another 99 Vietnamese voluntary soldiers and military experts who lost their lives on Battlefield 31 in the Xiangkhouang region of Laos.
Since 2012, the ministry has taken 1,804 samples of remains buried at the Vietnam-Laos Cemetery for Fallen Soldiers in Nghe An province and has successfully identified a total of 242 soldiers.
In other provinces and cities throughout the country, local leaders paid visits and offered gifts to those who made contributions to the nation during wartime on the occasion of Wounded and Fallen Soldiers Day.
