The boy from Zitnjak
- It was immediately clear that he was a well-bred young man, a warm and decent person from whom I never heard a bad word. –
Damir was called "Dado" by his friends. He was born in the family of Alojz and Marije, and had a twin brother and two sisters. They played together and grew up in the village of Žitnjak.
There, Dado finished elementary school, and after that he enrolled in "Prvomayjska" high school, today's well-known Mechanical Engineering Technical School Faust Vrančić. He served his military service in Kraljevo, and then started working in a printing house in Zagreb.
As a child from Zagreb, he was a fan of Dinamo. He loved watching football and followed all the matches of his favorite club. But besides being a loyal Bad Blue Boy, he was also a good player. For a time he played for the football club Inker from Zaprešić.
Stjepan Vokić remembered him for the purposes of the book "Nisu zaboravljen", authored by Tanja Belobrajdić. His mother Ljilja taught Damira in elementary school:
- I knew Damir because my mother taught him at school, and since there was no church in Petruševac where they lived at that time, he and his brother came to mass in Zvonimirova, in the church of Our Lady of Lourdes. It was immediately clear that he was a well-mannered young man, a warm and decent person from whom I never heard a bad word. He was a Catholic and even then he did not hide his Croatian orientation. Please emphasize that he was special. Really special. –