Verhovayak Lapja, 1944 (27. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1944 / Verhovay Journal
yOL. XXVII. JULY 13, 1944 ' ' NO. 28. Passing the Mark of Fifty In the sad records of military deaths, the Verhovay F. I. Association this week passed the mark of fifty. Including the names of those, who are reported on this page, we mourn for FIFTYONE Verhovay members, who have made the supreme sacrifice in the service of their country. Fifty one promising young men . . . who have laid down their lives in the prime of their youth in order that their comrades may achieve victory. Fiftyone young men, whom the war has torn out of their families . . . then out of their country . . . and finally out of the rank of the living. Passing the mark of Fifty, it is fitting that we stop and bow our heads in their honor: They have endured more trirbulations... they have fought harder . . . they have made a greater sacrifice . . . than any of us. They have given the full measure of service . . . 48. STEPHEN MOLNÁR STEPHEN MOLNÁR is a member and the first heroic dead of Branch 132, of South Bend, Indiana. He was born on March 25, 1922 in South Bend. He served in Italy and was killed in action on May 12, 1944, at the time, when the great offensive was started which broke the famous Gustav line and opened the road to Rome for the Allies: His remains rest in the ground, that has been hallowed by the blood of thousands of Allied soldiers who have accepted martyrdom in the fight for liberty. Several of our young men rest on the road between Cassino and Rome . . . he is not alone there ... he joined some of his Verhovay brethren, who died before him, helping to open the road on which he found the hero’s death. JOSEPH A. NAGY S. 2/C. tion has been released concerning his death, except the fact that his remains have been buried in Allied Territory. His only brother, Julius Nagy, Jr., serves somewhere in England. His two sisters share the sorrow of his mother. 49. JOSEPH OROSZ, JR. JOSEPH OROSZ Jr., was born in Puritan, Pa., on July 25, 1910. He was a member of Branch 36, of Detroit, Mich., which has lost in him its third member in the field of battle. He was killed in action on the 4th of June, 1944, on the front in Italy. At that time the armed forces of the United Nations had reached the holy city of Rome. He died, possibly, in sight of the great city, the liberation of which has cost so much blood, so much effort, so much suffering. He died, in sight of Victory. And while he remained there, at the gates of Rome, where the liberated people greeted our soldiers with cries of joy and the flowers of gratitude, his comrades marched on, through Rome, and beyond Rome, on and on, in the pursuit of the ruthless enemy who made that Victory a costly one. Perhaps the little girls of liberated Italy tstop at his grave, too, to place a feio flowers and say a prayer for the mother of this boy, who paid with his life for their liberation. 50. JOSEPH A. NAGY S.2-C. JOSEPH A. NAGY, S. 2/C. served until the U. S. Navy. He was a member of Branch 10, of Barton, O. His father died a year ago due to an accident in the coal-mine of Barton, Ohio. Only a year after having lost her beloved husband, Mrs. Nagy again is sorely tried by the loss of her son, who met his death in allied waters, on June 5, 1944. No further informa-51. St. Sgt. Joseph Cherney STAFF SERGEANT JOSEPH CHERNEY is the son of. Mr. Stephen Chernay, Manager of Branch 196, of Sagamore, Pa., who has three sons serving in the armed forces. Paul is an air-cadet, William has attained the rank of a First Lieutenant, and Joseph died in the rank of a Staff Sergeant. Obviously, all three are first class soldiers, whose advancement gave their father much cause for pride and rejoicing. Now, his pride has been veiled by sadness, since he has received from the War Department that ominous yellow telegram, informing him of the death of his son, Staff Sgt. Joseph Cherney, who was killed in action, on the German Front, on June 12, 1944. At that time, already bloody battles had been fought at the invasion front in Normandy, and, while no further details have been received yet, it is to be assumed that St. Sgt. Joseph Cherney has become the FIRST VERHOVAY CASULTY OF THE GREAT INVASION. * * * The membership of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association extends its deepest and most sincere sympathy to the families of the heroic dead. May they find their comfort in the assurance that their sons and brothers did not die in vain, but that this war will be followed by a longer period of peace than any other war. May they find their reward in the gratitude of their fellow-members who will never forget those families which have given their greatest treasures to this country which has accepted and adopted us as its citizens. These 51 heroic dead of our organization have done considerably more than their soldierly duty. While, in the line of ditty, they have paved the way to victory for their comrades and sacrificed their lives that others may live ... we first, second and third generation Hungarian-Americans have an added reason for appreciating their sacrifice. For it is these men who prove to the United States that it has done well by admitting the Hungarian immigrants to this country and granting them citizenship. In gratitude, these immigrants have reared sons and daughters, who hurried to serve their country and are willing to give to it the full measure of loyalty. There are tens of thousands of Hungarian Americans serving in the armed forces of our country. The Verhovay alone has raised a small army of 5,000 men and women, whose willingness to serve loyally has been exemplified by the fiftyone men who already have given their lives for victory. Thus the people of the United States cannot but recognize the value of the Hungarian immigrants who have brought from the old country nothing but a love for liberty and the willingness to fight and to die for it. While we write these lines, the fight goes on. Perhaps by this hour others have joined the rank of the heroic dead. Who knows how many have been wounded? Who knows how many have been decorated for heroic actions? We know, that the American boys of Hungarian extraction will make a heroic stand in every battle and, if necessary, they will follow these fifty one on the road to self-sacrifice. We remember them gratefully ... for it is their blood that melts the different nationalities of the United States into ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.