A delegation of the US Embassy in Podgorica, translated military attache, Lieutenant Colonel Darren Evans, laid a wreath at the tomb crying James Mestrovic, Sergeant US Army in World War I and the largest holder of US military decorations Congressional Medal of Honor.

Paying tribute to this hero was held on the occasion of November 11 - Armistice Day in World War I, which is the US celebrates as Veterans Day.

In addition to representatives of the US Embassy, the final resting place of Sergeant Mestrovic at the village cemetery outside the church of St. John the ?uraševi?a, visited the family members Mestrovic, as well as representatives of the Church Board of ?uraševi?a who welcomed Americans.

"The US is considered the place where the blend of different cultures, and that the character of America represents nothing more than the experience and service of Sergeant Mestrovic. Throughout our history, the United States alone by sseba, make people like your ancestor, a US strength, character and all our values build immigrants - people like Joka James Mestrovic.

Their quality has allowed Americans to become what they are today. "- Said Lieutenant Colonel Evans, noting that the United States, on Veterans Day, honor their fallen soldiers, not only in the territory of that country, but worldwide. He emphasized the fact that the young Yoko Mestrovic, the Austro-Hungarian citizen, a Serb from the Bay, before the First World War he emigrated to the US and immediately after his adopted country into the war, volunteered to join the US Army. "It is in this way and fought for America and for Montenegro and ideals that lead the United States, providing for the ultimate sacrifice - their lives." - Said Lt. Col. Evans.

In the name of the family Mestrovic whose members now live in both Krtole, as well as in Serbia and Croatia, thanked Mitja Mestrovic from Makarska."Yoko was a great man who everyone see what the Mestrovic. We are very proud of him, especially now that the November 25, marks the full 90 years since the US President Woodrow Wilson, posthumously awarded the highest US military decoration. "- Said Mitja Mestrovic, grandson Jokovog late brother Mitra.

He stressed that the desire of families to the village of Mestrovic, reconstruction Jokov birth house and converted it into a memorial home to state his Congressional Medal of Honor and other objects and documents, in order to code the public could get to know the life and exploit their ancestor .

On the other present members of the family Mestrovic thanked the US military and the US government for the care and honors the chamber memories of their ancestors. Seventeen-year Joko Mestrovic emigrated from Austria-Hungary in the US 1911 years. Then one of the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Europe who came to the "promised land" in search of a better life, from the deck of the steamer "President Grant" step on American soil, in the immigration center at the famous Ellis Island in New York. He was admitted to the United States, received US citizenship and settled in Fresno, California. When the United States in 1917 entered the First World War, Yoko James Mestrovic volunteered in the US Army in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He became the next in C Company of 111.puka 28.pješadijske Division Pennsylvanian National Guard. With this division Mestrovic in the summer of 1918 due to the Western Front in France, where the US unit was difficult bit against the Germans. In one of these battles, August 10, 1918 at the French town of Fismes, Mestrovic was stressed heroism when, under fire from machine guns and grenade ekpsplozijama, left the shelter and crawled 30 meters in the open field, the "no man's land" that on his back from there out in the trenches on the safe return of his badly wounded commander.

Mestrovic's so American officer saved his life and his project team assessed as "an extraordinary example of courage and selfless sacrifice."

Brave Iskra in the ranks of the American 28th Division, whose members are called "men of steel", unfortunately, did not live to the end of the First World War because of the result of the Spanish flu, died on 4 November 1918, just a week before the Armistice. He was posthumously awarded the highest US military decoration - the Congressional Medal of Honor. His remains from France are transported to the Bay twenties of the last century, an American warship, with the highest military honors.

Mestrovitch, James I., SGT