The Eucharistic celebration was led by the local son, Msgr. Tomo Knežević, who after the signing of the Washington Agreement was also the temporary administrator of the Čajdraš parish, concelebrating with the current Čajdraš parish priest, rev. Josip Šimunović, the local son of the Zavidovići parish priest, rev. Stipe Knežević, Zenica priests and parish priests rev. Vlatko Rosić, rev. Ante Dominković and rev. Davor Topić.

In his sermon, Msgr. Knežević reminded the gathered former members of the Croatian Defense Council of Zenica and Čajdraš, the Croatian Defense Forces, the relatives of the fallen veterans and the faithful of the thoughts of the late Čajdraš parish priest, rev. Božo Markotić: “… ‘The Croats from Čajdraš did not sit idly by. Before the war and in the war, one had to think in the spirit of the time in which the Croats from Zenica and Čajdraš found themselves. Slavko Brnjaković, Drago Perić, Marko Gelić, Franjo Ramljak aka Ćano and Zoran Šimić were the most active in procuring everything that was needed to defend their own families, homes and the Homeland’, and not to keep their own families until they were obliged to decide which unit to be included: Army of RBiH or HVO ...

However, there were also mutual quarrels. Čajdraš is unique on the outside, but it is heterogeneous in itself '. ‘I prayed for them’, says the late and beloved parish priest of Čajdraš, a martyr and military chaplain, rev. Božo Markotić in his Chronicle, ‘… to be unanimous, and party differences must be forgotten’. So much from our dear late parish priest and military chaplain rev. Božo for our present and our future”, said Msgr. Knežević.

In his reflection, the preacher said: “… The path of realization of every sincere patriot in Zenica and Čajdraš in this post-war period, both at home and abroad, was a memorial to the fallen veterans of the HVO and HOS, as well as civilians. During all this time, especially for Croat returnees in the area of the City of Zenica, the question arose how to achieve all this in a legal and equal way in Zenica, where they emerged as an HVO unit, together with the Bosniak Army of RBiH defended Bosnia and Herzegovina, and then on April 15^th 1993, attacked by the same Army of RBiH, the Croatian Defense Forces ceased to be part of the same Army, and the former defenders ended up as enemies in the military part of the Zenica Penitentiary, Music School or other places surviving the suffering.

Numerous Croatian Catholics of the City of Zenica can testify to everything, especially the settlements of Čajdraš, Bilivode and Vjetrenica, but also the entire City of Zenica. They had a hard time with the fact that in their command building, in the majority Croatian settlement of Podbrežje, there was a unit of the RBiH Army called El Mujahid, composed of mujahedin, foreigners and Bosnian Muslims, but also the behaviour of certain parts of the BiH Army units such as the Seventh Muslim Brigade as well as directly and indirectly expelling more than ten Catholic Croats”, stressed Msgr. Knežević.

For the time being, the memorial in Čajdraš is the only one, outside the Zenica cemetery, in the area of the City of Zenica for the fallen veterans members of the HVO.