17.10.2013
110 years of the Association of War Volunteers
Formal ceremony in the Central Military Club marked 110 years since the founding of the Association of War Volunteers from 1912 to 1918, their descendants and admirers and 85 years of publishing "Dobrovoljacki glasnik" (Volunteers' messenger), the journal that keeps the memory of the heroes of Serbian liberation wars.Apart from the representatives of the Serbian Armed Forces General Staff, Ministry of Culture and Information, Foreign Affairs and Labour and Social Policy, Serbian Orthodox Church, the Office of the Diaspora and Serbs in the region, the Ceremony was attended by presidents of the related associations from Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska, associations of disabled war veterans, Club of Generals and Admirals and many admirers of the volunteer movement in Serbia.
Pointing out that the tradition of voluntary joining Serbian war units is related to the earliest period of the national struggle for freedom, the president of the Association of War Volunteers Dr. Vidoje Golubovic said that many of the famous names of Serbian history, culture, politics and art marked the volunteer movement.
- Personification of the volunteer movement in Serbia is certainly the Field Marchal Vuk, but many poets, scientists, writers belonged to it. The best known is Mihajlo Pupin, who organized the volunteer units in the USA and sent them to Serbia and the Salonika front. Today, the Association of War volunteers is engaged in publishing books about the movement that has significantly contributed to the liberation of Serbia in several wars in the early 20th century, the research work in this area, maintenance of numerous wariors' cemeteries and memorials in Serbia, but also in other parts of Europe, where the Serb defended his peace and freedom, Golubovic said.In addition to the significant jubilee, the formal ceremony was to mark 85 years since the publication of the first issue of "Dobrovoljacki glasnik" journal which published on its pages texts and testimonies of victims and the heroic deeds of the volunteers who gave Serbia, without hesitation, the most precious thing they had - their life.
