Today August 23 is Flag Day in Ukraine. It also marks  to the day six months since the Russian invasion on February 23rd 2022. Today was an opportunity to commemorate our fallen brothers and sisters, defenders of Ukraine and those both friends and family no longer with us.

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The poem read by Max written by an unknown defender of Ukraine

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  They take turns kneeling in the villages

  In the cities, they stand and pay their respects

  Children are taken home in coffins

  And the rain pours like tears behind them

 

  There is no more space left in the cemetery,

  Red poppies adorn the wreaths

  Such a thing would not happen in a terrible dream

  As thunder rumbles far in the sky

 

 To die in one's Motherland...

 To leave life when you're so young

 Our brothers and our sisters unable to share in the lives of the ones left behind

Our fathers and mothers unable to see their children grow 

 

  Parents, as if they were in hell,

  Have hair turned grey in a day, anxiety and fear have added years.

  They have escorted their sons and daughters to heaven

   As tears drip from their cheeks

 

 

 Our defenders,  your brothers, your sisters 

  Have left for eternity so that we could live here in peace.

  Already I hear the songs from the angels

  Our debt to them will be an eternal bond between us.

 

  Shots from machine guns ring out

  Hearts clenched for a moment due to grief.

  Let God's punishment of those red devils be soon

  Let help them return to a place of damnation and fire

 

 

  What price do we pay for peace?

  For peace to come and the war to end?

  How much more suffering do we have to endure ?

 

Every sacrifice will be remembered. 

Every murdered soul never forgotten 

We have but one dream. 

Peace. Peace in our lifetime 

A free Ukraine in a free Europe

We have but one dream

Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes.