They arranged graves, lit candles and worshipped heroes – as they did all year before the celebration of All Saints and the Soul Day, the 6th Mazovian OT Brigade visited the graves of soldiers who left for the eternal watch.
“Soldier memory” is simply a cyclical, nationwide action aimed at cultivating the memory of Polish soldiers who died in fighting for Homeland, as well as shaping patriotic attitudes and building historical awareness. As part of this year's edition, soldiers of the 6th Mazovian Territorial Defence Brigade visited more than 20 graves and monuments in cemeteries throughout the Permanent territory of Responsibility.
The territorials remember the dead and dead soldiers throughout the year, but before 1 November “a minute of silence” or symbolic inflammation take on peculiar importance. They prove that the accomplishments of those who left are inactive surviving in the memory of subsequent generations. Therefore, for respective days, delegations of territorials from all subordinate battalions have been visiting memorial sites and burial sites of soldiers and combatants.
- I'm sorry. Maintaining the memory of fallen and dead Polish soldiers is our duty, it is simply a work entered into service. We know that without their heroic attitude there would be no our freedom, so for years at this peculiar time we have shown them due respect and tribute. The action besides has a social dimension, due to the fact that cleaned graves are more eager to visit passersby, stop, read memorial boards, show them to children - this is simply a priceless lesson in past that promotes patriotism and strengthens national identity - said Colonel Witold Bubak, commander of the 6th Mazovian Territorial Defence Brigade.
Soldiers of the 61st Light Infantry Battalion in the Princes had their peculiar care surrounded the graves in the okowarszaw forests, lighting candles in the resting places of the AK soldiers. The territorials besides paid tribute to the patron of the Brigade – rtm. Witold Pilecki, whose symbolic grave is located on the Powązkowski “Łączka”. The territories of Książec were besides present at the grave of Henryk Kończyk, ps. Halicz – Patron of the subdivision.
As part of the “Soldier's Memory”, soldiers of the 62nd Battalion of Light Infantry in Radom ordered graves at the cemeteries at Limanowskiego Street and the Victims of Firlej, as well as places commemorating the dead and murdered in fighting for Homeland during the First and Second planet War, located in various parts of the city. - Thanks to the order, we make certain that what cannot be forgotten is not forgotten. It's an honor for us to be able to deal with specified crucial places for history. This is an expression of respect for the people who incurred the highest price for our freedom - said soldiers visiting the airmen's cemetery at Limanowskiego Street in Radom.
Soldiers of the 63rd Light Infantry Battalion in Nowy Miasto nad Pilica paid tribute to the fallen at the grave of January insurgents from the branch of the military chief of the districts of Warsaw and sochaczewski captain Apolinary Młochowski who died on 16 February 1864 and were buried in Belsk Mały (Pow.Grójecki). They besides cleared out a collective grave of soldiers of the 44th Infantry Regiment of the 13th Infantry Division who died in September 1939, and paid tribute to Władysław Węgielrz, a associate in the Silesian uprisings and the battles of 1920-1939, a bachelor of the Virtuti Militari Cross buried in the parish cemetery in Belsk Duży (Grójecki County).
On the another hand, the territorialists from the 64th Light Infantry Battalion in Pomochówek expressed their memory towards the dead by ordering the resting places of the Warsaw insurgents. Soldiers from Pomochówka visited the graves of predecessors who left for the eternal watch, in the cemeteries in Pomochówek, Prayer, Zakroczym, Nasielsk, Cieksyn, Kampinos and Joniec.
Text: Press squad 6 MBOT
