President Nguyen Xuan Phuc offers incense to General Vo Nguyen Giap on August 22, 2021.

They expressed their gratitude to the General, who devoted his whole life to the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and nation.

General Vo Nguyen Giap (alias Van) was born in Loc Thuy commune, Le Thuy district, the central province of Quang Binh on August 25, 1911.  He passed away in Hanoi on October 4, 2013 at the age of 103.

He served as a Politburo member, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Standing Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of National Defense, Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnamese People’s Army and a National Assembly deputy from the first to seventh tenures.

General Giap, whose military career starting with his appointment to lead the first Vietnamese revolutionary army unit with only 34 soldiers in 1944, led the Vietnamese people's army from victory to victory during the resistance wars against French and American invaders.