Surrounded by the sounds of silence, in the near darkness of the night, the memorial organized in honor of the heroes of the First World War began on the evening of November 6. The monument, or more precisely the centenary of the commemorative column, was made in 1924, so now the people of Csurgó bowed their heads not only to the heroes, but also to the people who knew him the heroes, and for the builders of the memorial columns.
On Heroes’ Day, it was announced that the monument built in honor of the heroes of the First World War, proposed by Count József Károlyi, is 100 years old. The Csurgó board at the time supported the initiative on May 1, 1924, but there was no budget reserve for it, so in August 1924, 20 million crowns were collected as an additional tax, and this is how the a table with the names of the heroes who were completed. Many dignitaries appeared at the inauguration 100 years ago, including Archduke József, who remembered the sad holiday on the simple wooden crosses lined in the Carpathians and the heroes who lay beneath them , who are waiting to be awakened by the word Hungarian again. in happy times up them.
“As if I could hear their words.” Be one! Put aside all partisanship and hatred, be like us who put the country above everything else. He sacrificed everything, even our lives. – said the archduke in 1924.
As part of the commemoration program, the names of the 74 brave dead from Fehérvárcsurgó were listed. Then the music played until finally the leader of the settlement said a few words under the monument designed by József Károlyi and his assistant Ernő Zámbó.
– We would like to pay tribute to the 74 brave soldiers from Fehérvárcsurgo who gave their blood in the First World War and we would like to pay tribute to those who started and supported the construction of this memorial, i.e. to -the entire residence of Fehérvárcsurgo, so that we remember even after 100 years and can revive what is to be read on the monument: “It cannot be that there is so much heart shedding blood in vain”. – at the end of his speech, Temesvár mayor Krisztián mentioned the words taken from Mihály Vörösmarty’s speech.
