Remembrance
Croats and Serbs have opposing views of the operation. In Croatia, the date 5 August was chosen as the Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders. In Serbia and Republika Srpska, the Anniversary Day is held for mourning the Serbs killed or exiled from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during operation Storm.
Read more about this topic: Operation Storm
Famous quotes containing the word remembrance:
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“Then I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also; why then have I been so very wise?” And I said to myself that this also is vanity. For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 2:15-16.
“... The glamour
Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast
Down in the flood of remembrance ...”
—D.H. (David Herbert)