Gratitude to veterans - only on Victory Day?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

It all started back in 1941. A war that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. It lasted exactly 1418 days and nights. Young guys who went to the front so early, but returned from the war, remember these days with tears in their eyes and a tremor in their voices. Now they are old people, and every year on the day of the Great Victory, all the inhabitants of the country express their gratitude to the veterans. But is it only one day a year worth remembering them? Don't they deserve everyday help and care? What our victors experienced, what losses the army suffered - tell your children about victories and defeats or let them read this article.

Start of a terrible war

Summer 41 years. On June 22, proms were held in almost every city. Thousands of graduates gathered to watch the dawn with school friends, many saw it for the last time. It is worth saying words of gratitude to the veterans for their victory and for the surviving stories about this difficult period in people's lives.

Many cities and villages from the B altic Sea to the Carpathian Mountains woke up from volleys of gunsand bomb explosions that flew from the air. Someone was a little more fortunate, they learned about the war from a radio message. In the morning, the whole world shuddered in horror: no one understood what was happening, and did not believe that it would be for a long time.

Losses

The figures of loss of human lives on both sides are horrifying - about five million people, not only Russians and Germans, but also Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Buryats and other peoples. About a million more people are missing. We will not give official figures about the loss of equipment, but we note that in the first hour of the war alone, the losses of the USSR amounted to about two and a half thousand military equipment - that's an hour! And the war lasted four long years.

We express our gratitude to the veterans, because if it were not for their fighting spirit, their dedication and love for the motherland, the numbers would be ten times higher!

Hitler - failed hopes

He hoped for a quick war and did not expect such an answer. Poland and Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania surrendered to Germany practically without a fight, but the Soviet people did not want to give their homeland to strangers - the Nazis. Our army fought for everything that belonged to the Soviet Union - territory, people, their mothers, wives and children. Eighteen-year-old boys signed up en masse for the front. In the first days of the war, the number of volunteers already exceeded a million people. Units have returned who now need more than just gratitude. War veterans need attention and maybe a little care, it is important for them to know that the victory was not in vain, that they fought notin vain.

How long did the Great Patriotic War last?

From June 22, 1941 to May 9, 1945: 4 terrible years, 1418 days. Everything was here: fear and hunger, small joys and big victories, tears of happiness and tears of grief, and a long painful expectation of news from the battlefield. Those who went through all this are now ninety years old, some more, some less. But even after seven decades since the end of the war, the memories are fresh in their memory. Everything seems to have happened yesterday, and today words of gratitude to veterans are heard, tears in their eyes, and in memory - the faces of people who did not return from the war.

What to tell children about Victory?

The younger generation should know the cost of this victory. They must understand what fascism is. Why is the victory called Great.

The war engulfed many states, 80 percent of the population living on the planet fought for their homeland, defended their fatherland. Fights were fought on the ground and in the air, the Nazis set fire to villages and villages that are now alive only in the memory of the old people. They fought to the last breath - for this special thanks to them. It is hard for a veteran of the Great Patriotic War to remember how it was, their life is divided into before and after. But every year they again and again recall the terrible days of the war. Share experiences and thoughts that visited them at that time. There are few veterans left, so it is so important to have time to hear and understand them. The task of modern youth is not to let all people on Earth forget about this terrible war.

Victory Day - likewhen is it celebrated?

The Soviet Union, after the Great Victory, celebrated this holiday on May 9 for three years. It was officially recognized as a holiday. The first May 9 brought all people closer: flowers to the soldiers who returned from the front, tears of mothers who were finally able to hug their sons. Even those who did not wait for their loved ones from the front succumbed to the general joy. But three years later, the holiday was ordered to be forgotten: the huge destruction required a full calculation of forces, and there was no time for the celebration. Only seventeen years later, in 1965, May 9 was again recognized as a public holiday. This has been going on for half a century - fifty years. And every year we personally confess our love to our winners or write a letter of gratitude to a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Of course, I would like to ask all the inhabitants of the Earth to remember the people who went through the war, not only on this great day - Victory Day. And to express gratitude to veterans every day and hour for a peaceful sky, for the opportunity to live freely and calmly, raise their children and see happy smiles on their faces.

Write a letter of thanks to a veteran and give it to an unfamiliar grandfather who wipes tears from his eyes, who carries flowers to the grave of the unknown soldier. The moment his eyes touch the lines, he will know that he fought for a reason, that his victory is really important for all people.

Take care of our veterans - there are very few of them left!