There is nothing quite like being dressed to the nines, G3 rifle rests on your shoulder, your arms swing in time with your legs marching in unison with your comrades in four columns. The army band behind provides the tempo.
The crowds line the road, the kids excited, the parents keeping them firmly in hand. You stare ahead, a look of stoic determination, meanwhile inside you feel a deep pride and excitement.
It is all pomp and solemn silence as the flag is raised in Mytilini’s main square. The national anthem is played and then everyone goes home.
Long ago, I was a Greek army conscript, fresh from Zimbabwe. I was doing a six-month stint as a foreign-born Greek. I wish I could say it was all marching bands. It wasn’t. A lot of the time I felt like an alien who had been parachuted into an existence I had little idea about. It is not that I could not speak Greek, I did but with an accent and I had and have trouble understanding the more formal Greek used in the media or the accen
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