The Marking of Croatian Statehood Day

Among them were the delegation of the Ministry of Defence and of the Croatian Armed Forces. They paid respects at the monument of the Voice of the Croatian Victims (Wall of Pain) and the Partisan hero tomb, as well as at the Central Cross in the Alley of the fallen defenders, at the Grave of the first Croatian President, Franjo Tuđman and at the Common graveyard of the unidentified victims of the Homeland War at the Crematories.

The Statehood Day marking programme included the Holy Mass for the Homeland was served in the Saint Mark’s Church, by the Archbishop of Zagreb, Cardinal Josip Bozanić and a ceremonial concert of the Croatian Radio Television Symphony Orchestra. Shortly before the concert, the President of the Republic presented the candidates with the decorations awarded on the occasion of the Statehood Day, among whom Private Ivan Gagić, member of the Recce Coy of the Mechanised Guard Brigade of the Croatian Army, who received the Order of the Croatian Trefoil, for the outstanding contribution and assistance provided by the Croatian Armed Forces units to the residents of the flooded areas of Slavonia.