Greece´s Last Hero, Glezos the Great - Gone
(WorldNews Greece)

The late, great writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens, as big a champion as Greece ever had in campaigning for return of the stolen Parthenon Marbles from the thieves of the British Museum, said one of the biggest honors of his life was shaking the hand of Manolis Glezos. Me too. I had the distinct honor of interviewing him in 2001 around the 60th anniversary of the day Glezos and his friend Apostolos Santas - teenagers - climbing up a cave under the Acropolis the night of May 30, 1941, running past the Parthenon, climbing the flag pole to tear down the swastika, raising the Greek flag. `It was a large flag and when it fell it covered us. We got it off us, hugged and danced a little, right...