Celebration of Peace and Remembrance

Today is May 9, a day when the citizens of Drakonberg celebrate Peace and Remembrance Day. It cannot be called a holiday, it is simply a day of remembrance. Because despite the joy of the fact of victory, this day is filled with sadness for the many victims of that war. Yes, and the second part of this date is now not festive...

But more about everything below.

Our ancestors did not fight, they worked on the home front. Someone has to work in factories, someone has to teach future specialists in this or that sphere. But their labor was also marked by awards, which are shown here on the photo.

Nevertheless, one of our relatives died of hunger in besieged Leningrad. He was a cameraman and worked until the last minute on the newsreel of the then events. He was also a member of the Drakonberg family, but he did not have time to start a family.

Now we see how the whole world seems to have missed the global war, people have not become smarter or nobler since then. So the possibility of new days of victory is not excluded, only who will win and who will win - it is still unclear...

But May 9 is not only the day of victory for us. It is also the birthday of the founder of author's song in the USSR, poet and writer Bulat Okudzhava, on whose songs more than one generation of our citizens grew up. His poems and beautiful melodies are very deep.

Alas, he too died at the end of the last century. But we remember many of his songs by heart, and sometimes we sing them as well as we can in a small circle.

In general, today it seems to be a holiday, but a sad one. And we would like very much that there would be no wars in the world, that people would not kill each other for resources, territories, ideas and ambitions. Will such a time come?