General Vo Nguyen Giap planting a tree for Quoc Hoc School in Hue, April 1976

General Vo Nguyen Giap talking with local citizens at the foot of the banyan tree at Tan Trao Commune, 1995

In the heavy rain, despite the steep slopes and hills, General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting the Tran Hung Dao forest after 50 years or more. This was the founding place of the Vietnamese Mobilization and Liberation Army on December 22, 1944

General Vo Nguyen Giap talking with local citizens at the foot of the banyan tree at Tan Trao Commune, 1995

General Vo Nguyen Giap paying tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at Ben Duoc Memorial Site, Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City, 1996

General Vo Nguyen Giap paying tribute to revolutionary martyr Nguyen Thi Minh Khai in Xuan Thoi Thuong Commune, Hoc Mon district, Ho Chi Minh city, March 1996

In December 1997, on the 25th anniversary of the "Dien Bien Phu in the air" (Christmas bombing) victory (December 1972-December 1997), General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting the wreckage of an American B52 shot down at Huu Tiep Lake, Ngoc Ha, Ha Noi

General Vo Nguyen Giap attending the founding anniversary of the Thang Long School, where he once taught, 1998

General Vo Nguyen Giap attending the 55th founding anniversary of the 7th Military Zone (December 10, 1945-December 10, 2000). There, the soldiers gave flowers to the General

A veteran (left) who had tended General Vo Nguyen Giap’s horse during the Resistance against the French visiting the General (2000)

Nguyen Van Thich, a driver for General Vo Nguyen Giap, brought Phuc Trach grapefruit - speciality from his hometown Ha Tinh on the General’s 90th birthday (2001)

Children from Ha Noi visited General Vo Nguyen Giap on his 90th birthday, 2001

General Vo Nguyen Giap talking with soldiers, officers and ethnic minority people in Muong Phang, Dien Bien Phu, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap burning incenses to pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their life for the freedom and independence of Viet Nam at Dien Bien Phu Martyr Cemetery, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting the Muong Phang Command Bunker, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting the bunker of French General de Castries, Commander of the Dien Bien Phu Entrenched Camps, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting Le Thi Om, from Thai ethnic minority in Son La province. She sacrificed her small child to protect revolutionaries hiding in her family’s secret shelter in the Resistance against the French, April 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting two Heroic Mothers Nguyen Thi Thai and Tran Thi Khang (Hai Ba Trung district, Ha Noi)

General Vo Nguyen Giap visiting the Temple of Nguyen Trai in Nhi Khe village, Ha Noi

General Vo Nguyen Giap giving a speech to representatives of the Dien Bien Phu soldiers on the 50th anniversary of the historic victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap at the meeting of the Vietnamese Veterans on the 50th anniversary of the historic victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign at the Ho Chi Minh Museum, March 13, 2004

General Vo Nguyen Giap delivering a speech at the meeting of the Dien Bien Phu veterans on the 50th anniversary of the historic victory of the Dien Bien Phu Campaign