VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Museum of Military History will host an exchange programme for war veterans and students on March 26.

Visitors will be able to learn about previous generations' war experiences and their struggle to repel invaders.

Among the war veterans attending the event will be 70-year-old Nguyen Bang Phi. He lost a leg during fighting in 1966.

While recuperating in hospital, he fashioned an artificial leg from a grenade launcher.

"I could only think about returning to the battlefield to join my comrades," he said.

After fashioning the prosthetic, he approached his superiors about his plan to make artificial limbs for other wounded soldiers. With the help of his companions, he made hundreds of legs for his comrades.

The programme will be broadcast live on Ha Noi Television at 8.30pm.

* Fourth Viet Nam Folklore Festival kicks off in Central Highlands

The fourth Viet Nam Folklore Festival in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) area and southern province of Binh Phuoc kicks off today, March 25.

Seventy artists from ethnic minorities such as the Ba Na, E De, Gia Lai, Mo Nong from five provinces of Dac Nong, Lam Dong, Kon Tum, Dac Lac, Binh Phuoc will participate. Twenty-two folk songs will be performed.

The festival is held every two years in co-ordination with the Viet Nam Television Centre in Da Nang City and Dac Nong Province with the intention of uncovering original folk songs and discovering new talents.

The closing ceremony will broadcast live on VTV2 and VTV4 on Sunday.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News