Hanabandan

The fighters who are seen in the photo are the fighters of the military group of martyr Noori. These fighters had stayed in the frontiers for a month. Now they had came to the headquarters to rest for a while.

It was the guard of the battalion, so the war veterans had some programs in order to spend their time.

Some classes including education courses would be held for the university students. Also those war veterans who were teacher would teach the other war veterans; some religious precept and ethics classes would be held as well. We would read a text in the classes and then we would interpret and analyze the text for the war veterans too.

Since our distance to the city was not so long, we had this opportunity to go to the city as well. The fighters would get daily permissions to go to the city and they would go to Ahvaz and they would do their own personal work. Someday when we had gone to Ahvaz city, the fighters suggested that we buy some henna and to dye henna on our hands. We bought the henna and we took some of the floating units and took it on the water and we went away from the other fighters. We found a good place and we held the dying henna ceremony.

Since the fighters knew that a military operation in the underway, they had held this occasion; of course all of us had fasted as well.

Almost it was 10 o’clock in the morning that we went there to day henna and when we returned, it was sunset time. I can remember that we had sortes as well. When we opened the sortes of Hussein Ganji, it had written: “If you attempt so much, you will achieve your goal.”? On that day when we read this poem for Hussein Ganji, he became so happy and he started jumping up and down. The rest of the poem had the same meaning too. We I read the rest of the poem for him he said: “I will be martyred for sure”?.

That military operation was cancelled. But during the first operation after holding that dying henna ceremony, that was the military operation ‘Valfajr 8’, Hussein Ganji, Alaf Safari and Ghasem Noori were martyred. Also my comrade Ghariyan Pour was martyred during the military operation ‘Karbala 5’.

The End

By Veteran Mohammad Ali Hazrati

The Unoforgettable/ by Hasan Shakib Zadeh/ Shahed Publications/ 2011

The fighters who are seen in the photo are the fighters of the military group of martyr Noori. These fighters had stayed in the frontiers for a month. Now they had came to the headquarters to rest for a while. It was the guard of the battalion, so the war veterans had some programs in order to spend their time. Some classes including education courses would be held for the university students. Also those war veterans who were teacher would teach the other war veterans; some religious precept and ethics classes would be held as well. We would read a text in the classes and then we would interpret and analyze the text for the war veterans too. Since our distance to the city was not so long, we had this opportunity to go to the city as well. The fighters would get daily permissions to go to the city and they would go to Ahvaz and they would do their own personal work. Someday when we had gone to Ahvaz city, the fighters suggested that we buy some henna and to dye henna on our hands. We bought the henna and we took some of the floating units and took it on the water and we went away from the other fighters. We found a good place and we held the dying henna ceremony. Since the fighters knew that a military operation in the underway, they had held this occasion; of course all of us had fasted as well. Almost it was 10 o’clock in the morning that we went there to day henna and when we returned, it was sunset time. I can remember that we had sortes as well. When we opened the sortes of Hussein Ganji, it had written: “If you attempt so much, you will achieve your goal.”? On that day when we read this poem for Hussein Ganji, he became so happy and he started jumping up and down. The rest of the poem had the same meaning too. We I read the rest of the poem for him he said: “I will be martyred for sure”?. That military operation was cancelled. But during the first operation after holding that dying henna ceremony, that was the military operation ‘Valfajr 8’, Hussein Ganji, Alaf Safari and Ghasem Noori were martyred. Also my comrade Ghariyan Pour was martyred during the military operation ‘Karbala 5’. The End By Veteran Mohammad Ali Hazrati The Unoforgettable/ by Hasan Shakib Zadeh/ Shahed Publications/ 2011