During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh showed special care for soldiers, war invalids, and the families of martyrs. In 1947, President Ho Chi Minh designated July 27 as national War Invalids Day, which was later renamed War Invalids and Martyrs Day, to call on society to honor and support war invalids and martyrs’ families in acknowledgement of their contributions to the nation. Despite being occupied with numerous tasks, every year on July 27, President Ho Chi Minh personally sent letters, presented gifts, visited war invalids, families of martyrs, and paid tribute to the heroic martyrs at the cemeteries.

Over the years, caring for national contributors and their relatives has been strongly supported by agencies, sectors, and social organizations. Each year on this day, officials at every level of government take part in visiting, cleaning, and decorating graves and burning incense for veterans in cemeteries. During most of Vietnam’s wartime history, there were many soldiers who fell without any personal information known about them, so later monuments to unnamed martyrs were built in various locations to commemorate them.

War Invalids and Martyrs Day has profound historical, political, and social significance as it reflects the Party and State's evaluation and people with families who have died for the Fatherland. The day of war invalids and martyrs with the desire to increase awareness, responsibility, and gratitude and arouse national pride. It also promotes the moral "Drinking water, remember the source” and expresses the deeply humanistic tradition of the nation. Through War Invalids and Martyrs Day, it encourages and promotes the revolutionary tradition in the cause of national renewal.

Embracing Uncle Ho’s teachings and the revolutionary traditions of the homeland, along with efforts to develop the economy and society, Can Tho always cares about and considers the implementation of policies for outstanding contributors to the revolution as an extremely important sentiment, honor, and political task. In addition to properly and timely implementing the policies, the Party committees, authorities, Vietnam Fatherland Front, and political-social organizations at all levels have actively and closely coordinated in organizing activities to care for war invalids, war veterans, families of martyrs, and other contributors to the revolution.

On the same day, at President Ho Chi Minh's monument in Ninh Kieu Wharf, the delegation of Can Tho City leaders respectfully offered flowers and incense to express their deep gratitude and respect to President Ho Chi Minh.