OHI Day

 28th October

Big brother is a year older.

Happy Birthday Paul Mou. 

See you in a few months. 

And another day of Greek National Pride. There will be a church service, wreath laying, speeches,  and a parade of school children along the waterfront to the 'big band' music of the Poros Municipal 'orchestra'.

This year we will have only one granddaughter to cheer on in the parade. 

We'll be there!

This day is called OHI Day. The day PM Metaxas, back in 1940, replied with a resounding NO to Mussolini's demand to surrender.

A few hours later war began on the front with Albania where Italian forces had gathered.  Greeks fought them back into Albania.

A newspaper at the time wrote

'Today there is no Greek who does not add his voice to the  thunderous  OHI OHI OHI (no, no, no), we will not hand over Greece to Italy. 

OHI.....Italian ruffiani* will not set foot on our land.

OHI..... the barbarian will not desecrate our Parthenon.'

From then on this day became known as OHI Day.

You haven't seen Poppi on the blog for a while. Here she is laying a wreath on behalf of the Poros Rowing Club. Beside her is Petros, another Balkanian medal winner.

Poppi with the Mayor of Poros

She was then One of the students presented with an award for her acceptance into University.

*Ruffiani

Looking for a translation.

'Bootlicker' came up.

That's about right 😁