Tiến Quân Ca



"I must admit. This song is much more sophisticating than what my father thought in the Vietnam War. Now me and my father can change our minds together so we can love Vietnamese communism, and with all of this, I knew Vietnam and China are just both different and they just both hated each other, even though they're just communist nations."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Left Alone

"Tiến Quân Ca" ("Marching Song"), also known as the "Army March" and the "Song of Advancing Soldiers", is the national anthem of Vietnam, both written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944. The "Marching Song" was adopted as the national anthem of Democratic Republic of (North) Vietnam in 1945, and was adopted as the national anthem of the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976, following the reunification of both North Vietnam and South (Republic of) Vietnam at the end of the Vietnam War. Though it has two verses, the first one is mainly sung.