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And we always look at him in awe, because we know that he embodied the global resonance of the Greek War of Independence at the time and ever since. It was a great honor, therefore, that as students we laid a wreath with our own Kavafis, as if we were saying to this great English Philhellene: We are here and we carry on your legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/uploads\/4_6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/uploads\/6_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"555\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the wreath laying, NYC founder and President Elias Foutsis, <em>Hon<\/em> <em>PhD, <\/em>stated: &#8220;Congratulations to our students for their bicentennial initiative and for the modesty with which they carried it out. \u00a0I am sure that similar initiatives, at local level, will be taken by many of their colleagues studying at public universities and colleges. \u00a0\u03a4he legacy of &#8220;Freedom or Death&#8221; bequeathed by the Generation of 1821 to us its descendants and to all mankind, is a heavy one.\u00a0 Today, it seems the young people of Greece are becoming more and more aware of this&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/uploads\/5_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"863\" height=\"555\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A little while ago, at 3:30 p.m., representatives of the students of New York College laid wreaths to the monumental statues of <strong>Georgios Karaiskakis<\/strong> (on Herodou Atticou Street, opposite the Panathenaic Stadium), and of <strong>Lord Byron<\/strong> (on Vas. 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