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HILL OF THREE CROSSES, VILNIUS
By Aage Myhre
aage.myhre@VilNews.com
Easter Sunday 1991 represents one of the most magical moments I've ever experienced in my life. The date was the 31st of March, and I wandered through the Old Town of Vilnius together with the one who would later become my wife. A couple of months earlier I had been standing with Professor Vytautas Landsbergis in the Lithuanian Parliament looking out at the Soviet military forces and the tens of thousands of Lithuanians who were there with their bonfires and primitive tools to protect the Parliament. I had seen the coffins of the thirteen brave individuals standing outside the Cathedral in Vilnius, and I had seen how a whole people gathered in grief and despair over the USSR's new assault on this small nation and the innocent civilians who so bravely sacrificed their lives for their home country.
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