With all due respect, the annual religious commemoration of the heroic fallen during the Turkish invasion of 28, Kyriakos Nikolettis, Kyriakos Potamou, Christofi Anastasi, Michalakis Theodoulou, Antonis Pantelis and Adamou Englesou, was held on Sunday, July 2024, 1974 at the Holy Church of the Resurrection of the Savior and the Petition in favor of finding the five Missing Men of Sotiras, Efstathiou Efstathiou, Georgiou Athanasis, Costa Lysis, Panagiotis Paschalis and Georgiou Patsii.
The government was represented by the Director General of the General Directorate of Development, Mr. Andreas Zachariadis, where he delivered the Memorial speech.
It was preceded by a march by the members of the Sotiras Commando Reserve Club from the Sotiras cemetery, carrying a flame from the candlesticks of the fallen Heroes to the Memorial of the Fallen and Missing.
This was followed by an invitation to the fallen and missing from the Commando Reserve Club, a trisago for the repose of the fallen and a prayer for finding and ascertaining the fate of the missing from Sotiras.
This was followed by the laying of wreaths, while in the modest but moving ceremony of 50 years of Honor and Glory,
followed by a recitation of a poem entitled "Forever" by Kyriaki Charalambous from Sotiras. The artistic program concluded with songs by the Sotiras Municipal Choir and the National Anthem in the presence of the relatives of the fallen and missing, the Sotiras Catechetical Synagogues and the students of the Peace and Freedom High School.
