Never forget their sacrifices

1389. Battle of Kosovo. Sveti Knez Lazar. Vidovdan. These are just the words people never knew about the heroic martyrdom of Saint Prince Lazar. He gave us what is the true meaning of sacrifice for our God and our homeland. People should never forget what he gave us. The sacrifice of keeping the Turkish Ottoman troops away from the rest of Europe despite losing his life and his soldiers on that fateful day.

Never a man like him shall do these heroic and holy deeds of having a divine liturgy before defending their homeland against the Ottoman menace. He is so unique that he is the well known gatekeeper of the Balkans. Serbia survived for 50 years after his death as an Ottoman vassal until the Turks decided to attack Srbija and it was not until the 19th century that the Serbs finally united to repel the Ottoman invasions after more than 400 years of tyrant Ottoman rule.

Srpski:
Ko je Srbin i srpskoga roda,
i od srpske krvi i kolena,
a ne doš'o na boj na Kosovo,
ne imao od srca poroda,
ni muškoga ni devojačkoga!
Od ruke mu ništa ne rodilo,
rujno vino ni pšenica bela!
Rđom kapo dok mu je kolena!

English:
Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth,
And of Serb blood and heritage,
And comes not to fight at Kosovo,
May he never have progeny born from love,
Neither son nor daughter!
May nothing grow that his hand sows,
Neither red wine nor white wheat!
And may he be dying in filth as long as his children are alive!