Freedom cockades

the past Sunday here in Hungary it was an especially important national celebration.
each March 15th Hungarian people remember the sacrifice of their patriots to free the nation from Austrian imperialists and gain independence.

Budapest commemorates this day with parades, a public flag-raising,  a chief of State's speech, and a  big crowd in cockades in Kossuth Lajos ter in front of the Parliament, and free entries to some museums and to the Parliament itself.

it's still an experience to see how much respect is payed to those ones who dared to dream a better future for the humanity.
the people were singing Sandor Petofi "National Song":

“On your feet, Magyar, the homeland calls!
The time is here, now or never!
Shall we be slaves or free?
This is the question, choose your answer!
By the God of the Hungarians
We vow,
We vow, that we will be slaves
No longer!”