{"id":6605,"date":"2018-05-26T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/univet.hu\/2018\/05\/26\/heroes-day\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:15:00","slug":"heroes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/2018\/05\/heroes-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> <p><strong>The University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, the&nbsp;Hungarian Veterinary Association, and the Hungarian Veterinary Chamber hold a commemoration at the end of May every year on Heroes&#39; Day in front of the memorials on the walls of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, the Department of Chemistry, and the library of the Faculty of Veterinary Science.<\/strong><\/p> <p><strong>A ceremony was held at the University of Veterinary Medicine&rsquo;s park to commemorate all soldiers who died for their Hungarian homeland.<\/strong> Parliament declared the last Sunday in May a national day for Hungary&rsquo;s Heroes in 2001, partly reviving a 1917 law under which all towns and cities were obliged to erect monuments to soldiers who died in World War I.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/univet.hu\/files\/news\/226\/images\/IMG_7229.JPG\" data-replaced=\"true\" style=\"height:233px; margin:5px; width:350px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/univet.hu\/files\/news\/226\/images\/IMG_7502.JPG\" data-replaced=\"true\" style=\"height:233px; margin:5px; width:350px\" \/><\/strong><\/p> <p>As part of the Heroes Day ceremony, wreaths of commemoration were laid by <strong>Dr.&nbsp;P&eacute;ter S&oacute;tonyi<\/strong> rector and <strong>Dr. Tibor N&eacute;meth<\/strong> vice-rector at the plaque of Zolt&aacute;n Tatay veterinary student, who died of martyrdom in 1956 October 24th.<\/p> <p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/univet.hu\/files\/news\/226\/images\/IMG_7333%281%29.JPG\" data-replaced=\"true\" style=\"height:233px; margin:5px; width:350px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/univet.hu\/files\/news\/226\/images\/IMG_7323.JPG\" data-replaced=\"true\" style=\"height:233px; margin:5px; width:350px\" \/><\/strong><\/p> <p>For more photos please visit the following <a href=\"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/university\/gallery\/159\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p> <\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s not always easy to decide which profession is best for us when we are young. But this summer the University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest showed that becoming a veterinarian can be a good choice. With a one-week program, we showed for a bunch of young titans what university studies are like as a vet student and life as a vet. We are sure by the end of the summer school our guests will have a better understanding of what vets do. As a plus, the program took place in vibrant and beautiful Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172226,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6605\/revisions\/172226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/univet.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}