23:18 28/11/2011
In the last days of 1964, a history lecturer from Hanoi University and a delegation of cadres from the fields of culture, education, health, cinema, etc. set out for the South. In the civilian delegation that year, he was among the intellectuals who volunteered to take up arms and go but did not have to "put down their pens and ink". His backpack was heavy with textbooks and treatises. He set out as a pedagogue and historian to take on a common responsibility with the experts in the delegation: Developing education for the liberated areas and building a team of lecturers for a university preparing to be established on the base of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. Many people recognized him. That was Ca Le Hien - the author of the poem Remembering the Rain of the Homeland, which won second prize in the Literature and Arts newspaper's poetry contest in 1960.