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Independence Palace

Ngồi ở Dinh Độc Lập đọc nhật ký chiến trường của anh hùng Hoàng Kim Lếnh

Sitting at the Independence Palace reading the war diary of hero Hoang Kim Lenh

Strangely by chance, while on a business trip to Ho Chi Minh City, I met a colleague, a fellow countryman, and he showed me the war diary of his uncle - hero Hoang Kim Lenh.

Parade schedule on April 30 in Ho Chi Minh City

Firing 21 cannon shots; fighter jets and helicopters performing; Vietnamese armed forces, along with the armies of China, Laos, and Cambodia, parading in front of the Independence Palace; fireworks at 30 points... are a series of events on April 30.
Hai Duong people entered the Independence Palace on the historic day of April 30.

There were many Hai Duong people - at that time 18 - 20 years old boys, their worn-out shirts still smelling of gun smoke in the liberation army marching into the Independence Palace on April 30, 1975.