Authorities in Da Nang held a ceremony on Wednesday to posthumously confer the State's noble title of “Heroic Vietnamese Mother” to six women whose husbands and children laid down their lives in the struggle for national liberation, construction and protection.

Municipal People’s Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh speaking at the ceremony

Speaking at the ceremony, municipal People’s Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh stressed that the Vietnamese Party, State and people always remember the noble sacrifices of heroes and martyrs and the great contributions of heroic mothers.

The official requested local sectors, authorities, and people pay more attention to caring for alive heroic mothers and to the education of younger generations on their duties in response to the nation’s revolutionary history.

Da Nang is home to 3,386 heroic mothers, of whom 87 are still alive.

Reporting by LE HUNG - Translating by M.DUNG