- H TAXYDROMOS THS NEAS YORKHS

THE MESSENGER FROM NEW YORK

SENDS A LETTER OF PEACE TO GREECE-

REBEL OF OUR VOICE WAS MR. DIONISIOS WHO LEFT FROM THE ISLAND OF ZANTE AND MR. NIKOLAOS WHO LEFT FROM ATHENS AND CAME TO AMERICA ON A BOAT.

THEY STARTED WASHING DISHES DAY AND NIGHT AT THE FAMOUS “Diners” OF MANHATTAN AND THEY WERE HIDING THEIR MONEY EVERY NIGHT UNDER THEIR BED AT THEIR APPARTMENT ON 6TH STREET.

EVERY SECOND MONTH THEY WERE SENDING THEIR “KOBPODEMA” MONEY BACK TO THEIR SISTERS, THEIR WIVES AND KIDS.

THOSE DOLLARS THEY SENT WITH THE YEARS, BECAME GREEK DRACHMAS AND LATER EURO WHICH THEIR GRAND GRAND CHILDREN THREE DAYS AGO USED TO BUY LIGHTERS (made in China, the cheap ones because the kids don’t have money and that’s why they are rioting) TO BURN THE GREEK FLAG IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS-

WHO WOULD HAVE TOLD MR. DIONISIOS AND MR. NIKOLAOS THAT THEY WERE WORKING DAY AND NIGHT AND DRINKING THEIR METAXA ALL THOSE YEARS ALONE AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE GREEKS TO END UP LIKE THAT-

MANY OF YOU WILL SAY, YOUR WAY OF THINKING IS SO OLD.

WHO WILL REMEMBER OF OUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS WHO MIGRATED ABROAD TO AMERICA, TO CANADA, TO AUSTRALIA, TO GERMANY AND TO SO MANY OTHER LANDS IN ORDER FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS TO HAVE A BETTER TOMORROW?

BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT AT LEAST WHEN OUR GREAT GRAND FATHERS REALIZED THAT GREECE WAS NOT THE COUNTRY THAT COULD OFFER THEM BETTER WORKING OPPORTUNITIES, WEALTH AND ALL THOSE ISSUES FOR WHICH THE YOUTH IS RIOTING, THEY DIDN’T BURN THE GREEK FLAG-

I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO WRITE TO YOU, OUR GREEK YOUTH-

THE GREEK ANTHEM SAYS:

"FROM THE BONES TAKEN THE SACRED OF THE GREEKS"

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER FELT
HOW IT IS TO MISS HOME SO DEEPLY
HOW IT IS TO MISS VIEWING THE GREEK FLAG MOVING PROUDLY
ON THE BOATS AT PIREAUS PORT SO DEEPLY
SO THAT ANOTHER VOICE OF PEACE CAN COME OUT OF YOUR BONES-

PITTY

- Deborah Xenou Gaitanou
H TAXYDROMOS THS NEAS YORKHS

Greeks or any International readers, leave a comment.
What does your country's flag mean to you?
Maybe we can really write a letter of peace-