11:18 29/11/2011
In the final days of 1964, a history lecturer from Hanoi University, along with a delegation of officials from the cultural, educational, medical, and film sectors, set off for the South. Among the civilian cadres who went to the South that year, he was one of the intellectuals who volunteered to take up arms, but he didn't have to "put aside his pen and ink." His backpack was heavy with textbooks and scholarly works. He set off as an educator and historian, joining the experts in the delegation to undertake a common responsibility: developing education in the liberated areas and building a faculty for a university being prepared for establishment in the base of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Many recognized him. It was Ca Lê Hiến – the author of the poem "Remembering the Rain of My Homeland," which won second prize in the Văn Nghệ newspaper's poetry competition in 1960.