Monday, July 7, 2008

VICTORY DAY






After reading all of the 4th of July posts, I remembered that I never did a post on the Russian Victory Day Celebration.  Every May 9th they celebrate their victorious winning of WW2.  All of the war veterans bring out their uniforms and medals and wear them for weeks before and after.  Some of them all year long.  They are so proud of them.  This cute little couple are in our Kaluga Branch.  He use to be the branch president until about  1 1/2 yrs. ago.  He is 86 years old and can hardly hear or see, but is so faithful and comes every week.  I couldn't resist taking a picture of him at church with all of his medals with his sweetheart wife.  This year we went downtown and watched the parade.  It was pretty impressive.  There were tons of people, but with both sides of the streets lined with shoulder to shoulder security guards it was peaceful.  This year is the first time for a lot of years that they had the tanks, missles, and all kinds of war machines parade across Red Square.  Then they had a parade of airplanes, jets and helicopters fly right over the top of us and over Red Square.  It was quite the "cultural experience.   

1 comment:

Ned and Erin + kids said...

They do look like a sweet couple. Did you wear you red white and blue to show you true love for the country. i hope not because who knows what might happen