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The Combat Cross of the Second Degree awardee Gevorg Ghazaryan who died in 1994 at Omar pass would have turned 41 on May 20.

“Today I enter deeply into the feelings I lived in 94, when my son fell. I feel pain when the nation’s elite fall victim like my son who died at 20,” Lyudmila Ghazaryan, Gevorg Ghazaryan’s mother told Panorama.am at an event dedicated to his son’s memory held at Leo school.  

The mother recalled that Gevorg was rather gentle, patient, and friendly, although he was name “tough” at the battlefield due to his fighting manner.  

“He visited us on December 31 before leaving for the battlefield to leave his last photo. The fighting was tough and severe. Seeing his commander wounded he approached to save him and was attacked by an Azeri group. To escape from the perspective of being captured, he took his commander in his arms and blew himself up with a grenade, and the rest of the Azeri unit,” Ghazaryan’s mother recalled.

She then wished patience to mothers of all soldiers and strength and caution to the soldiers themselves, noting, “we live aside to a century long enemy.”

Leo School principal Rafael Barseghyan emphasized that school has given 5 alumni and a teacher as heroes. “Even today some 35-40 of our alumni serve in Artsakh,” he said.