Today in Greece we celebrate Greece's Independence Day, the day in 1821 when the Greeks stood up to the Ottoman empire and declared "we aren't gonna take it anymore". I won't fill you in on all the details since EllasDevil already did a good job over at his blog. Ironically, today's celebration comes days after the Turkish government cried casus belli against Greece yet again, for some inane reason relating to the property line in the Aegean. Maybe fences do make great neighbors.
Greece has a heritage to be proud of. Let the men and women who declared "freedom or death" on this day 185 years ago always be remembered, and may beautiful Greece never bow to a foreign empire again.
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