Armenia celebrates Victory Day
09.05.2009 16:30

Lena Badeyan
`Radiolur’

People have been visiting the Eternal Flame at Haghtanak (Victory) Park
since morning to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the victory in the
Great Patriotic War.

It was hard for Paylak Chobanyan, 81, to come to the park and lay
flowers at the Eternal Flame, paying tribute to the memory of his
brothers-in-arms. Paylak Chobanyan remembers well how he went to defend
the motherland when he was 17, he recall the details of different
battles, and of course, like any veteran, he remembers how he speny May
9th, 1945.

`I come here every year on May 9, but I think, this is the last time. I
will bid farewell and go, I can’t walk any more,’ the veteran told
`Radiolur.’

The leadership of the republic headed by the Prime Minister and the
Speaker of the National Assembly also visited Haghtanak Park today.
There was a short parade, the memory of the killed soldiers was honored
with a minute of silence.