Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
How Ukraine Honors Its Fallen Soldiers
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Sasha Volyanyk describes the moving ways Ukrainians honor their fallen soldiers.
Sasha Volyanyk reflects on two deeply emotional tributes in Ukraine: the daily pause at 9 a.m. and communities stopping as fallen soldiers are brought home. He shares what these acts of remembrance mean to people honoring those who gave their lives for their country’s freedom.
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Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds is a local public television program presented by WTVP
Consider This with Christine Zak Edmonds
How Ukraine Honors Its Fallen Soldiers
Clip: Season 7 Episode 8 | 51sVideo has Closed Captions
Sasha Volyanyk reflects on two deeply emotional tributes in Ukraine: the daily pause at 9 a.m. and communities stopping as fallen soldiers are brought home. He shares what these acts of remembrance mean to people honoring those who gave their lives for their country’s freedom.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipSo, I would say two things, the most emotional for me, it's when 9:00 in the morning, (clears throat) the whole life stop to honor the soldiers, and the second one when we have a convoy of the bringing the fallen soldiers through the city, and the whole city will stop to honor that person.
So, yeah.
So, I think it's something that we can give back to the people who actually give the most valuable thing in their life for the freedom.
- Their life, yes.
And the cemetery, I think, Mark, I think you sent me the picture of the cemetery, which is beautiful, with all of the Ukrainian flags and the flowers and the pictures of the soldiers themselves.
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