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Old 06-04-2008, 11:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Foolosophy View Post
"Greeks dont fight like heros - Heros fight like Greeks"

Winston Churchill speech during WW2 in describing the Greek resistance to German forces in Crete
I am only a honorary Greek, my spoken greek is bad, my wife gets back to being fluent(see spent 10yrs at sea with Greeks) when we are with our friends!

Sophy as an athiest of jewish origin people wonder why I wear a very unusual star of david.It comes from around the neck of a greek jew who fought at my side in 67, we were both very young he was three yrs older than me at 19yrs of age, he had a more orthodox view of what we were doing.

We had plans to visit greece after and as I liked the star for its looks and as I did not have one, we were going to visit his uncle's shop to buy one (with discount) I did not need to, I wear his with pride.I did not say kaddish.

I like people around me who have courage, loyalty, and are crazy enought to and stand solid no matter the odds. It is a principle that a lot of people and races have, but it is easist to find in greeks and balkan people.

My wife was working with greek officers on a cruise ship in the 90s a fuel line fractured of freeport I think, the greek master sounded the first stage of the abandon ship, the pax were 90% americans, when my wife had finnished getting people organised at there muster station, they had removed by force a number of paxs who had locked themselves in there cabins.

She is a certificate (miami costguard) firefighter, she got her fireproof suit joined her team in the bowels of the ship and fought the fire, with the skill of the greek master and the crews courage they saved the ship got it into port, without putting the pax into life boats.

She said it was her job, but she was upset at the lack of respect she and the crew got from the pax
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