On this day, according to the law passed in 1924 and reconfirmed in 2011, we remember our heroes who sacrificed their lives in wars. Those without whose heroic life sacrifice we would not be able to remember them now.
Wikipedia writes about war: “War is large-scale violent conflict.
The assertion of the interests of opposing parties through war has ranged throughout history from tribal wars to conflicts between city-states, nations and empires.
The purpose of war is to enforce the interests of opposing parties by force, which can be the acquisition of territory,
the acquisition/maintenance of economic resources, the spread of religious and/or political ideology."
And the writer István Fekete says: "There is no war won or lost, there is only "War"! Destructive, murderous, inhuman! Wars didn't solve any problems, but they always planted the seeds for the next one. Wars are started by a few people, but they don't fight and they don't die. Ordinary people kill each other, they fall into the limestone pit of foreign land, and their homes are destroyed. They are the tools and they are the victims.” Touching sentences. But if we are attacked, we must defend or we will lose.
The first major conflict after the Hungarian conquest went down in history as the Battle of Bratislava.
It wasn't taught to me at school yet, but now anyone who is interested can find a lot about it. Árpád's armies clashed against the united army of Europe at Bratislava on July 4 and 5, 907. The order of the ruler of the leading European empire at the time read: "I order the Hungarians to exterminate." Almost unimaginable under the conditions of Europe at the time, the strike force gathered around 100,000 people. Even by the time of the much later Crusades, they could not organize an army of this size. The Hungarian army led by Árpád and his sons approx. There were 40,000 people, but they still won a brilliant victory. The consequence of the battle was that a foreign army did not dare to turn towards Hungary for 130 years. That's how we stayed and got stronger in this country. With the adoption of Christianity, we then became the eastern bastion of Europe, which previously conspired to exterminate us.
We defended this country, but also the whole of Europe from the Tatars, we almost perished.
Then we protected it from the Turks, and much later from the Russians, also protecting the entire continent in the process, and we almost perished. And what did we get in return? Trianon, the land robbery of our country, the first, new Paris peace after the Second World War. And since we've been here, we've been scorned, misunderstood, hated, exploited, and exploited continuously until today. We've never received anything good from them, and we can't expect it today either. 23 names can be read on the monument to the heroes of World War I in Gönyű. The II. and on the monument to the heroes of World War 39. These are meager numbers, but behind each name, the grief of an entire family, an entire community of relatives is darkened.
The last 2 years were the time of the coronavirus pandemic. We were just beginning to see the end when a great war broke out in our neighborhood. But while there is a vaccine and medicine against the virus, there is only hope and prayer against the war that it will end as soon as possible and that it will not become a devastation that engulfs the entire continent or the entire world in flames. The blood of Ukrainians and Russians is flowing in Ukraine, villages and cities are being razed to the ground.
But those who have eyes to see can know that this is not a war between two closely related Slavic peoples, but a war of the so-called "West" against Russia led by the already declining American world empire.
And today's European leaders, as loyal minions, would sacrifice even the most basic security and economic interests of their own people on the altar of retaliatory measures intended to punish Russia.
What is this if not war madness again on this continent? Hungary is currently part of this West, a member of NATO and the European Union, but it has successfully kept itself away from this madness until now. How long this is possible is a big question. And if it is no longer possible, will we have the courage to immediately withdraw from these organizations and choose neutrality instead of being forced into war and suffering the economic nuclear bomb of shutting off the oil and gas taps?
Decisions worthy of great national heroes will be required in the coming days and weeks.
Back to our heroes! In my opinion, there are not only war heroes. The life sacrifice of the military heroes would have been in vain if it were not for the everyday heroes, both in war and in peace, who continuously maintained the life of our nation, passed it on, and continue to pass it on to this day. Who am I thinking of? First of all, to those young women and men who, in times of war and peace, in relative prosperity and in the hopeless times of poverty, in the midst of all the insecurities that are incomprehensible to us today, had the courage to commit themselves for a lifetime, to bring children into the world, and to raise them with love .
This is the greatest sacrifice, the greatest ordinary heroism, which is not for a battle or war, but for an entire human life. Let's think about them on Heroes' Day! To our great-grandparents, our parents, who watch our fate from above, their bodies are dusting here below us, but their memory always lives here in our hearts and souls, wherever we are.
They are our biggest everyday heroes! And the young people of today who continue to weave the thread of Hungarian life. In their hands, or rather in the wombs of women, is the key to the further destiny of our nation.
Super heroes are those who raise sick children and care for their elderly, sick relatives.
I don't know a greater cross on the shoulders of a family, greater heroism on the part of those who undertake it. We need to talk about the nannies, the kindergarten teachers, the guardians, and our teachers, who smooth our way, watch over our stumbling steps at the beginning of our lives with protective love. I highlight and name the holy man of today's Hungarian life, the hero of the world, who has so far saved the lives of many thousands of children from getting lost, from going down the wrong path. I hope that the decision-makers of the Nobel Peace Prize will award him this year's prize. He is Csaba Böjte, a Franciscan monk from Deva.
From the field of medicine, neurosurgeon András Csókay, who successfully separated twins conjoined at their skulls, is also our internationally renowned Hungarian hero.
Katalin Karikó, the patentee of the modified RNA technology, and her small Hungarian team saved the lives of millions of people during the coronavirus pandemic with the help of vaccines developed on this basis.
Four Hungarian heroes. Three of them attended the same high school in Kisújszállás. That is why we can safely call Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccinations small new accommodation vaccinations. Ernő Rubik's brilliant invention, the magic cube. He is also the Hungarian hero of intellectual work.
Our history is a series of struggles with world empires.
But while the powers that tried to destroy us have all disappeared into the abyss of history, we are here. Out of stock and maybe even partially broken, but still here we are. And here we stay. I am convinced that we have been living here in the Carpathian Basin for thousands of years, not 1,100. "Like rosemary in good soil, hey, rooted in it." And this land is the key to survival, because it is paradise on earth itself. Our garden, our village, our country. Which we will not give for silver or gold, for little or much, or under intimidation or coercion, because we have no other country but this one. If this is lost, we are lost. When, after the great collapse, many people die of thirst and hunger in the world, and the billionaires also realize that banknotes, stocks are not edible and crude oil is not drinkable, we here will still be able to get a slice of bread and a glass of milk for our grandchildren give.
Maybe a few bites of bacon. Csilla Szabó's heartfelt song "If you eat bread" comes to mind.
We remember our war heroes and bow deeply to them. But let's also think about everyday heroes! For those around us. Everyone can look at the people next to them.
We can only hope and pray that there will be no need for III. to erect a World War II memorial in the coming years. However, I recommend that we think about a monument that commemorates our everyday heroes! It might be like that
it doesn't even exist in the world. I already have an idea, I'm waiting for ideas from others! With the lines of László Tolcsvay's song, I thank you for listening: "Give me peace, Lord,
please, for my troubled heart, peace and hope for the unborn child!
Dr. Gergely Nagy
drnagygergely@t-online.hu
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