Loud message the leader sent today GEETHA General Konstantinos Floros on the occasion of the national anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821.

Referring to double celebration for our country, Mr. Floros notes in his message that the Armed Forces against “external risks” they always “guarantee the safety of every Greek citizen from any external danger”, adding characteristically: “Because we are not from yesterday in this neighborhood, we are the oldest, the oldest in this Peninsula. And here we intend to remain in the age of everything! And this can be guaranteed by the Armed Forces of the Homeland”.

The message of the GEETHA leader

“Officers, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Servicemen, National Guards and Civilian Personnel of the Armed Forces,
​Like today 202 years ago, the most brilliant, the most important, the most magnificent day in our Modern History dawned!
​Like today, March 25, 1821, the spark became a fire and the momentum of the Greeks poured out like red-hot lava from the bowels of black slavery, sweeping everything in its path!
Like today the entire Greek area was flooded with gunpowder and from the mouths of our ancestors the same chilling cry was heard everywhere: “Liberty or Death!”
“Unanimously we all decided to either free ourselves or die! Deprived of all our rights, we decided to take the chariots and rush against the tyrant!
This is what they wanted, this is what they decided together, this is what they swore on their knees in front of the Beautiful Gate of Agia Lavra, and this is what the Greeks of the legendary Generation of 1821 put into practice! A handful of ordinary people, tortured, deprived of all their rights, without weapons and equipment, unlearned in war tactics, carrying on their shoulders the burden of four centuries of slavery…
And yet these few, these simple and thousands of tormented Greeks, straightened the theoretical buoy of their souls against the enemy and fell with uncontrollable force into the fire and the furnace of the Struggle! Even if they had to face an entire empire! Even if cold logic said that the Revolution was doomed! Even if the enemy’s forces were many times greater! Even if the international circumstances were not favorable! But they dared! They did not look for pretexts and alibi not to fight! They didn’t weigh and calculate… They just dared! “Freedom needs virtue and courage”!
“When we decided to start the Revolution, we didn’t even think about how many we were, or that we didn’t have chariots, or that the Turks were encroaching on the castles,” Kolokotronis recounts, “…but like a rain, the desire for freedom fell on all of us”!
With this burning desire, with this fever in the heart, the Nation rose up and began to fight! To fight, to show his virtue and greatness, and to keep marching towards his Freedom! In Valtetsi and Doliana, Dervenakia and Gravia, Distomo and Grana, Messolongi and Arachova, Alamana and Maniaki, Mylos and Petra, Gerontas and Mykali and so many other well-known or lesser-known toponyms , the Greeks wrote new Marathons, new Thermopylae, new Salamis and new Plataea, scaring their enemies so much that they “heard a Greek and fled a thousand miles away. A hundred Greeks put five thousand ahead and one ship an armada!”, as the Old Man of Moria tells us.
These Heroes with the capital that gave everything for Freedom we honor and remember today! The ones who engraved in deep letters on the slab of History that “the greatness of peoples is not measured by the acre, by the fire of the heart is also measured by blood”! First and foremost of all, the immortal Elder of Moria, the Patriarch of all younger Greeks and especially us military men, Commander-in-Chief Theodoros Kolokotronis. “Leonidas’s sword, Kolokotronis wears it!”, the Greeks proudly sang about their Leader. And with him, the quick-tempered and outspoken Son of Kalogria, George Karaiskakis, the martyred Athanasios Diakos, the inimitable Nikitas Stamatelopoulos, the impetuous Grigorios Dikaios-Papaflessa, the lion-hearted Markos Botsaris, the haughty Odysseus Androutsos, the legendary Konstantinos Kanaris, the great sailor Andreas Miaoulis, the fearless shipwrights Laskarina Bouboulina and Manto Mavrogenous. Honor and glory to those who set us free! Honor and glory to all those named and anonymous Greek fighters, provosts, scholars, merchants, clergy, villagers and sailors who signed with their blood under the registry act of birth of Greece!
Honor and glory also to those who in the darkness of long slavery kept alive and unadulterated our language, our faith, our national consciousness and the hope of Freedom: from the mythical figures of the Kleftarmatols of the mountains to the venerable personalities of the great Masters of the Race and the simple and tireless priests of the villages and cities!
Men and Women of the Armed Forces,

​March 25 goes far beyond the simple historical event. The 25th of March is the unburnable wick, the living truth of Hellenism! From that glorious day everything began, from that holy day everything flows, on that day the path was opened which then became a road and then a wide avenue that reaches to this day! On that day, the name of GREECE appeared faintly on the world map, in that exact spot on the map that History taught us and knows us, the History of more than three thousand years!
​Because we are not yesterday in this neighborhood, we are the oldest, the most ancient in this Peninsula. And here we intend to remain in the age of everything! And this can be guaranteed by the Armed Forces of the Homeland! This is guaranteed by the enormous power of our Weapons, which are Weapons of Deterrence and Peace, they are Weapons to defend and safeguard the Freedom, Independence and Dignity of Greece, they are Weapons that guarantee the safety of every Greek citizen from any external danger, yesterday, today, always. In eternity.
I wish from the bottom of my heart the fiery and universal expedition of March 25, 1821; for the National Paligenesia to accompany you, steel your soul, enlighten your mind and guide you everywhere you serve, in the guns, tanks, Operations Centers, Outposts, warships, submarines, pilothouses, on the radars and on all the ramparts, rocks and trenches from Othonou to Kastellorizo ​​and from Ormenio to Gavdos! Where the heart of this wonderful, unique Nation beats. Of the Greek Nation. Of the Nation of Greeks all over the Earth.
​May the Virgin Mary, the Most Holy Theotokos, the Heroic General of Greece whose Annunciation we celebrate today, cover and protect you and your families!
​Let the immortal Spirit of 1821, the irresistible Spirit of “emboldened Liberty,” be your Inspiration, Beacon, and Guide! And it is! Both the difficult and the easy. Both uphill and downhill. Always and everywhere! This is how we sleep and wake up in the Armed Forces. We live, work and walk with it. From this we draw and will draw our strength.
​This Nation, the Nation of the Greeks, has been through a lot, a lot, and yet it lives, and it will always live!
Happy birthday to all of you!!!
Happy birthday to our Greece!!!
Long live the glorious and heroic 1821!
Long live the Armed Forces!!!
God bless you!​
General Konstantinos Floros”