When the fatherland calls, the whole nation stands up! This unity is the common thinking of every Vietnamese citizen when facing a foreign invasion. Every year on July 27, across martyred warriors' cemeteries and memorials, streams of people quietly light incense sticks to show their respect, gratitude, and remembrance of the martyred warriors and heroes who sacrificed their lives for the nation's independence.

Mr. Le Xuan Tuong was a soldier fighting on the Quang Tri front in the fiercest years of war. He always remembers the old battlefield. For student soldiers like him at the time, the years of self-sacrifice at a young age would live on forever.

While collecting documents and artefacts of the resistance, Hanoi Museum staff met and interacted with veterans of Hanoi origin living in Phu Tho. In 1965, Hanoi mobilized more than 15,000 people to join the standing army, equal to the number of troops recruited in 5 years (1959-1964).

On a late autumn afternoon, we had the opportunity to stop by Tu Dinh Street, Long Bien District, to meet veteran Le Van Khanh to hear about the memorabilia that he has kept throughout his life. Among them, there was the first color television assembled in Vietnam, which he once called "a family treasure".

Medium Nguyen Ngoc Vinh (born in 1944) lives in Ngo Quyen Ward, Son Tay Town, Hanoi. In 1975, Vinh began to practice the Hau Dong (receiving incarnations of the deities). So far, it has been 46 years since he followed Thanh Mau (the Holy Mother).

This well-preserved Ancestral Altar was donated by Mr. Pham Hong Ngoc’s family (18B Ly Thai To, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi) to the Hanoi Museum in 2020. It is over a century old representing four generations of use and features the artistic style of the late Nguyen period of the early 20th century.

On a hot summer day in 2020, we returned to Phu Tho Province to meet and collect memorabilia of veterans who fought on the battlefields of the resistance war against the US. One of the veterans was Mr. Ngo Van Dung (born in 1940), a native of Phu Nham Commune, Phu Ninh District, Phu Tho Province - was part of the generation of veterans who believed in “Putting the pen down to take the gun up”. He personally crafted and kept a special memento, a comb made from the wreckage of an American A3J (RA5C) aircraft shot down on Le Truc Street in Hanoi in 1967.