In front of the monument

On the near of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, arsenic you look astatine the supine hoplite, the names “Pindus, Morova, Korytsa…” person been engraved. On the right, anyone with eyes to spot the monument reads “Kleisoura, Premeti, Roupel.”

Tuesday’s day of “Ochi Day,” marking Greece’s absorption connected October 28, 1940 to an Italian ultimatum and its introduction into World War II, is an accidental to revisit these spot names. To rethink the past down them, which gives the monument its intangible, but immeasurable value.

The threats and challenges facing the state necessitate broader statement and nationalist dialogue. When this cannot beryllium achieved adjacent for our nationalist monument, we should beryllium profoundly concerned.

Perhaps it is clip for everyone, with the loud-mouthed governmental leaderships first, to take a step back. To measurement themselves – and their governmental calculations – against these engravings: “Crete. El Alamein. Rimini.”