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The month of freedom
Demetrios Rhompotis
It’s March, still cold and the occasional snowfall, but the day is longer, sunny every now and then, it feels like turning the winter page, although you can never be sure. For us Hellenes, March is also the month of freedom because it comes with the Greek Independence Day. Actually, we commemorate the beginning of a long and painful struggle against the Ottoman Empire and the rest of the European Empires that through the Holy Alliance wanted to maintain the status quo. The Greeks and the Greeks alone in the beginning, said no and they managed to impose their will after years of fighting both in war and diplomatically. The rest is history, as we say, and if we don’t want to be history too, prematurely, we must hold dear the lessons of that David vs Goliath struggle and not just the historical events. We too must cherish our freedom, not taking for granted and hold it always higher than comfort. Especially today that our world once more is a mess…
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