BLOOD AND TEARS

BY DR. GEORGE PAPAVIZAS

One summer for our vacation instead of flying from the States to Greece, my husband and our then two teenage daughters flew to Switzerland rented a car, and drove from Zurich to Italy. When we reached Brindizi we took the ferryboat to the island of Corfu, continued to Igoumenitsa, Epirus and then drove to Western Macedonia to reach our native village of Pentalofos, Kozani.
We had left the flat land of Ioannina and were ascending the road toward Konitsa, going through the Pindos mountain range. My thoughts were with my parents, I was happy that I would see them again and at the same time I also feared the moment that I would realize once more that they had aged since the last time I saw them. All of a sudden, and out of nowhere, on the right side of the road and halfway up on the mountain arose a majestic statue of a soldier, a monument of the Greek soldier of W.W.II who fought the Italians right on these very mountains. Clad...
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