Ho Chi Minh City on October 14 holds a memorial service, funeral rite and burial ceremony for 731 sets of martyrs’ remains recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park.
Party and State leaders, military officers and Buddhist monks pay their respects to fallen soldiers during the memorial service.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung, former State Presidents Nguyen Minh Triet and Truong Tan Sang, former National Assembly President Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, and former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attend the memorial service for the martyrs at Le Thi Rieng Park.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung offers incense on behalf of the Party and State leaders in tribute to fallen soldiers during the memorial service.
Buddhist monks perform a solemn ritual during the memorial service for 731 sets of fallen soldiers' remains.
Ho Chi Minh City Party Secretary Tran Luu Quang and city leaders offer incense in tribute to fallen soldiers.
General Nguyen Trong Nghia, Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army, joins senior military officers in saluting during the memorial service for the martyrs.
Prime Minister Le Minh Hung and former State President Nguyen Minh Triet stand on either side of the coffin of a fallen soldier during the memorial service.
The 731 sets of fallen soldiers’ remains recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City are part of the nationwide 500-day campaign to search for, recover and identify martyrs’ remains.
Leaders, military personnel and civilians escort fallen soldiers’ remains recovered from Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City on October 14.
The convoy carrying 731 sets of fallen soldiers’ remains travels from Le Thi Rieng Park to Ho Chi Minh City Martyrs’ Cemetery on October 14, as crowds of local residents line the road to pay their respects to the fallen heroes.
An elderly mother of a fallen soldier is escorted to pay her final respects to her son and his comrades, whose remains were recovered from Le Thi Rieng Cultural Park in Ho Chi Minh City.
Local residents, holding white chrysanthemums, line the route to pay their respects to the 731 sets of martyrs’ remains as the convoy passes by.