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Truong Son National Cemetery – Quang Tri
The cemetery is situated 17 km south of the Ben Hai River and is so large it can only be described as impressive. Not so impressive is the deaths that created a need of such a place. The endless rows of white tombstones are a memorial to the tens of thousands of NVA (Northern Vietnam Army) soldiers and other military personnel killed in and around the Truong Son Mountains
The cemetery was built on several low lying hills in Truong Son village, Gio Linh district. In the cemetery there are a big war memorial, a stela house and a group of statutes, as high as 10 meters, depicting those fallen combatants who had sacrificed their lives for national liberation and independence. The big stela bears an inscription highly evaluating the sacrifices and merits contributed to the national liberation war by those soldiers who had kept the Ho Chi Minh Trail connected all the time for the continuation of material and man power supply from the north to the battlefields in the south.