A Day of Memory, Hope, and Glory at Ground Zero Nix Turkey Ground Blessing Bid for EU Ceremony for the Inclusion New St
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s o C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ Bringing the news w ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ to generations of e ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald Greek- Americans N c v A weekly Greek-AMeriCAn PubliCAtion www.thenationalherald.com VOL. 18, ISSUE 889 October 25-31 , 2014 $1.50 Cyprus Will A Day of Memory, Hope, and Glory at Ground Zero Nix Turkey Ground Blessing Bid for EU Ceremony for the Inclusion New St. Nicholas By Constantinos E. Scaros TNH Staff and Constantine S. Sirigos NICOSIA — European Union NEW YORK – The images of the member Cyprus will oppose any ground blessing service of the progress in Turkey’s ongoing new St. Nicholas Shrine at talks to join the 28-nation bloc Ground Zero on October 18, in response to a Turkish gas presided over by Archbishop search in waters where Cyprus Demetrios of America, will be - has already licensed companies come iconic for the Greek-Amer - to drill, an official said. ican community. The move is one of several First and foremost, since it new measures that the Cypriot was a day to mourn the loss of government unveiled after ac - those Greek-Americans who cusing Turkey of stepping up its perished on 9/11, there was the violation of the small country’s moving scene of their relatives sovereign rights by dispatching bearing vessels filed with water a research ship off its southern from the pools of the nearby coast. 9/11 Memorial, which they Cypriot President Nicos poured into the crystal bowl on Anastasiades will also lodge a the on the altar. formal complaint against Turkey Second, but no less impor - at an EU leaders’ meeting later tantly, because of the scene of this week, government harmony and unity among the spokesman Nicos leaders and members of the Christodoulides said. community: Seven Metropoli - Formal complaints will also tans traveled from across the be lodged with the U.N. Division country to be present, and four for Oceans and Law of the Sea, busloads of parishioners fol - the International Maritime Or - lowed Fr. Nektarios Pa - ganization and possibly with the pazafiropoulos, Dean of St. U.N. Security Council, Demetrios Cathedral in Astoria Christodoulides said. The Attor - to Ground Zero. ney General and international Each of the estimated 3000 law firms will look at possible Three thousand people, including friends and family of 9/11 by the media worldwide. Many participants signed their names people who attended were legal action against anyone in - victims, made the pilgrimage to Ground Zero for the new St. and left messages on the wall of the Church’s foundation. Nu - deemed VIPs, received com - volved in the Turkey gas search. Nicholas Shrine ground blessing ceremony, in an event covered merous Greek names, seen here, adorn a portion of the wall. memorative candles, and were Cyprus will also take actions thanked by the archbishop and at international organizations Anthoula Katsimatides, who that would force “Turkey to in - served as Emcee for the inter - cur a cost for its illegal actions,” nationally-broadcast event, and Christodoulides said. He didn’t Greece’s “Oxi” Was U.S.’ “Nai” to the Diaspora for whom the day had especial elaborate. He said more mea - significance. sures will be announced “ac - Anthoula’s mother, Kalliope, cording to developments.” TNH Staff That initial resistance, along decades earlier began to immi - “The repulse of a large and participated in the water pro - Cyprus was split along ethnic with courageous battles to grate to the United States in thoroughly equipped Italian cession to honor the memory of lines in 1974 when Turkey in - This week we devote a spe - thwart Italy’s and Germany’s ad - large numbers. force by a small band of Greeks her son and Anthoula’s brother vaded after a coup by supporters cial insert to OXI day – a holiday vances, prompted Winston In the eyes of their non- assumes the proportion of a John, one of the victims. She ex - of a union with Greece. Turkey celebrated on October 28 in Churchill to declare that from Greek fellow Americans, Greeks modern Thermopylae…the pressed the universal feeling doesn’t recognize Cyprus as a Greece and by Greeks through - that point forward, “we will not in the United States were asso - Greeks have clung on with hope that “It was a special and im - state and opposes an offshore out the world, commemorating say that Greeks fight like heroes, ciated with bravery and consid - and even optimism. In so doing portant day that will go down energy search by the interna - Greece’s historic response of but we will say that heroes fight ered valuable allies. With virtual they have won the admiration in history and remain in our tionally recognized Greek “Oxi – No!” against Italian Dic - like Greeks.” unanimity, editorial boards of the world.” souls…I am very touched. May Cypriot government, saying that tator Benito Mussolini’s demand But international regard for throughout the country praised Oxi Day, therefore, is a par - God grant all of the departed it ignores the rights of break - that Greece allow Italian forces Greece’s valor was not limited Greece for its heroic feat. ticularly significant holiday not peace and health to everyone.” away Turkish Cypriots. to enter its territory in order to to Churchill. Quite notably, it The New York Herald Tri - only to honor the valor of the UNITY, THEN AND NOW occupy strategic positions as was a boost for the image of bune aptly encapsulated the Greeks, but to appreciate its pos - In the aftermath of one of the Continued on page 12 WWII continued. Greek-Americans, who only sentiment: itive effect on Greek America. most horrific tragedies to dev - astate the United States, the na - tion came together in unity right away: then-President George W. Bush, a Republican, and then- Rita Wilson – from Acting to Singing Senate Majority Leader, Demo - crat Tom Daschle, at odds with one another nearly constantly By Penelope Karageorge One of Wilson’s strengths as In her performance, she since Bush’s inauguration only a performer is her charm and refers often to her Greek roots, eight months earlier, set the Greek-American Rita Wilson, ability to communicate. She even noting that “Aristotle – he’s tone for the entire country with 56, best known as an actress makes every audience member a Greek – said that friendship is a heartfelt embrace inside the and power behind My Big Fat feel she’s talking to them di - a single soul living in two bod - U.S. Capitol. Greek Wedding, has launched a rectly. ies.” This preceded the lovely Though the names and faces triumphant new career as a According to Wilson, being song Talking to Me. She con - were different at Ground Zero singer/songwriter, realizing a Greek helped her get where she fessed that she lost her father 13 years later, that same spirit lifelong dream. She recently is, and also held her back. “My and two close friends during the of unity and cooperation res - opened at New York’s presti - Greek mom had to flee her vil - past year and “I like to think the onated, and was necessary for gious Carlyle Café to audience lage in the middle of the night. conversation continues after the the first steps the ceremony con - huzzahs and standing ovations. Both she and my father took ex - person is gone.” stituted, and will be required For those who missed her, they treme risks to come to America. “I’m very proud of my Greek moving forward to raise the $38 can tune in to her original song Not a day went by without my heritage. Greeks can be stub - million needed to complete the album due out early in 2015. father saying ‘God Bless Amer - born, and that’s me.” With her Church. Designed by Santiago Her compositions range from ica.’ Their risk-taking made me new career taking off, Wilson’s Calatrava and evocative of the joyful to nostalgic to moving risk-averse, so this career came counting her blessings. “My Hagia Sophia and other Byzan - and vulnerable. Wilson has a later for me. I finally took the mother is my best friend. She tine monuments, the Shrine will smoky, sensual voice, and her risk to get out on the stage and has Alzheimer’s but I’m so literally glow in the evening and genuine enjoyment of perform - sing. Maybe I didn’t want to lose happy to have her with me. I become an instant New York AP Photo/Greek Culture Ministry ing shines through every num - control. I wanted to be the good feel blessed and appreciate all I landmark. More Findings in Amphipolis Dig ber. little soldier.” have, my husband and children. The procession led by altar “I’m here to tell you that In person, Wilson is a stun - I’m even happy for the bad boys included the Archdiocesan A photo by Greece's Culture Ministry shows the broken marble great things can happen after ner, moving to the musical beat things that happened along the Byzantine choir, local Orthodox head of one of the two sphinx statues that decorated the age 50,” Wilson exulted to an in a silver and black fringed out - way, even for the people who clergy and representatives of nu - entrance of a large ancient tomb in Amphipolis. The head was enthusiastic crowd. “Thank you fit. She’s sexy and sensuous, said I would never amount to merous denominations. It fol - discovered in the third and deepest chamber of the late 4th for sharing the start of my new without losing her ladylike per - century BC tomb, which archaeologists claim is unplundered.