Every New Year comes, Spring comes, along with food, food and Tet items such as peaches, kumquats, ornamental plants… Truong Sa soldiers, rig house DK1 even received thousands letterTet greeting cards from relatives and students from all parts of the country.
The letters containing the children’s pure feelings with wishes and messages have strengthened the soldiers who are guarding the sea and sky on the front island.
Sending love from the mainland
Introducing us letters with neat handwriting, italicized in purple ink, Principal of Nghia Do Primary School (Cau Giay district, Hanoi) Nguyen Minh Uyen said, when implementing the program “Border Spring” -Island New Year” in 2023, including the content of sending the national flag, writing letters and making Tet greeting cards “Letters cross the waves” to dear Truong Sa, the school has received hundreds of handwritten letters. along with colorful student cards.
The letters with fresh purple ink are not only feelings but also messages of dreams to the soldiers in Truong Sa.
“Educating knowledge about the sea and islands is always one of the contents that the school cares about and focuses on. The teachers of the school often integrate content about the sea and islands into their lessons with the desire to arouse love, a sense of joining hands to contribute, and build the sea and islands of the Fatherland in each student,” said Ms. Nguyen. Minh Uyen shared.
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Holding the newly decorated card in her hand, Vu Thuy Minh, class 5A2, Nghia Do Primary School happily said: “I am always impressed with the image of the navy soldier by his bravery, loyalty, and patience. bear hardship. So, I wrote a poem on the card and decorated it with my own colors to make my card full of spring to the soldiers who were having to celebrate Tet away from home. I hope this card will bring warmth to the uncles to welcome the new year.”
The letters containing the pure feelings of the students sent to the Truong Sa soldiers. (Photo: Nguyen Cuc/VNA)As for Vu Linh Giang, class 5A2, she wrote in a greeting card: “I wish you a happy and prosperous new year, always healthy to protect the Fatherland. I thank the uncles for participating in the protection of the remote island so that the country can celebrate Tet in peace.”
Turning the pages of letters written on white paper, we encountered the pure but profound feelings of Duong Khanh Chi, class 5A4 of Nghia Do Primary School: “I have never set foot on the sacred island of the school. Sa that the uncles are guarding day and night. What I know about you is only through newspapers, television or stories from parents and teachers. Through that, I understood the silent sacrifices of the uncles. They not only bravely fought and sacrificed, but also overcame all difficulties and hardships.”
Handwritten letter to color Spring
Currently, when the means of communication are developing, in the Truong Sa archipelago, handwritten letters are still a traditional, familiar and indispensable means in the lives of officials, soldiers and people. The letters that crossed the waves to the island contained the storms, love and nostalgia of loved ones every Tet to Spring.
There were tears of happiness falling on her face darkened by the sun and wind when reading letters from her mother, lover, and students from all over the country.
The young navy soldiers went to Truong Sa to receive their assignments in January 2023. (Photo: Nguyen Cuc/VNA)Reading the handwritten letters from students sent from Hanoi, Major Vu Van Thanh, who is on duty on Truong Sa island (Truong Sa district, Khanh Hoa province) said, “This is a precious gift.” God has great significance for the officers and soldiers on duty in the country Truong Saespecially on the occasion of Tet to Spring, when the nostalgia for relatives and the land is more abundant than ever.
“Those spiritual gifts are a great source of encouragement, giving us more motivation to overcome all difficulties and successfully complete the assigned tasks. Because we know that our family, relatives and people all over the country are always by our side, always watching over us. That alone is enough to warm the hearts of the soldiers who are guarding day and night, protecting the sea and sky of their homeland,” Major Vu Van Thanh shared.
Lieutenant Nguyen Huu Dat, Politician of Da Dong C Island, said the letter followed the ship to the island, so it took a long time for the soldiers to receive it. The letters from relatives, wives and children, and students from the mainland sent out, making the officers and soldiers very emotional and proud. The brothers always told themselves to be more determined to complete the tasks assigned by the Party, State and superiors, to protect the sacred sea and island sovereignty of the Fatherland.
“Under the blue sky, starfish eggs
Wearing rain, wind, storm
The sturdy gun
The enemy shows his face
The great sea will bury you
I hope to grow up
Will cross the waves to the sea
Also hold the gun firmly
Hold the sea for the sky”
Pure poetry and lovely wishes in the picture new Year greeting cards At the beginning of the year, he and the cadres and soldiers at the front island welcomed Tet warmly.
At this time, on Truong Sa island, the square eagle flowers were blooming pink, the seagulls’ wings swayed on the shore of the crashing waves. Spring has come to the place where “the head of the wave, the wind” contains many flavors and colors. The salty taste of the sea, the acrid taste of the sweat drops on the foreheads of the young soldiers, and the sweetness of the love conveyed through handwritten letters.
Nguyen Cuc (VNA/Vietnam+)