I was reading something today that brought to mind the current lack of character, honesty, desire to do right, do the right thing, and plain old fearlessness in the face of danger and adversity. It is the greek word Philotimo that has no direct translation to any otner language, yet it is the most important word Greeks use to describe someone.
So, here hoes an example from when Greeks stood way too tall in front of the monsters of the third Reich:
“Philotimo was present on Zakynthos on September 9, 1943 when Mayor Karrer and Archbishop Chrysostomos were ordered by a Nazi commander to provide a list of all Jews living on the island of Zakynthos. Rather than betray their Jewish neighbors, they chose to protect them from imminent death by hiding them with Greek villagers living high up in the mountains. The next day the list they presented to the Nazis contained only two names, their own.”
America is missing so much of that today, and the world at large in general. Too many midgets and cowards.
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