25th of March is the day Greece celebrates the beggining of our revolution that led to independence from the ottomans. Greece always celebrates the begginings of wars, a tradition going back all the way to the classical greece age.
Today is the day our glorious leader Theodoros Kolokotronis put his twin swords at the necks of both turks and greeks. (The jews he killed outright after robbing them blind) Turks to drive them away, greeks to force them to join the revolution. Or die. Entire towns were slaughtered by him under his motto : "fire and axe to the lackeys" before greeks realized their fate cowaring, will be worse than that of death in honorouble combat.
But courage too was in our hearts. Most greeks yearned for war once again. The revolution was insanely bloody and tragic.
My countrymen's abandon in war would make ancient spartans proud. Even the women did not relent. When the men died they kept fighting on and on, town after town again and again choosing death over surrender.
Internal conflict, war crimes, division, tragedy but also glory and in the end victory and freedom for Christ and our ancestor's bones.
Greece NEVER dies. For a while it rests, then on to glory again.