Τhe Scouting in Greece
Greece was one of the first countries which
founded Scouting. One day, in London, in 1908, the Greek teacher of Gymnastics
Athanasios Lefkaditis, met in a shop a boy who was wearing the boy scout uniform. When he
asked the boy what a boy scout was, the boy told him: "Boy scout is a kid who is
always ready to help the others and who does a good action every day". The lovely
answer of the English Boy Scout, made Athanasios Lefkaditis to decide to study and
transport Scouting in Greece.
So in November of 1910, he founded in co-operation with the students of the Makri High School, where he was teacher, the first troop in Greece.
From 1910 until today, hundreds of thousands of Greek boys were taught the scouting method, filled in important places in the Greek Society and devoted themselves to the Greek Nation. The Greek Scouts were those who helped the victims of the war in Eastern Macedonia, they were the fist who helped the victims of the big fire distraction of Thessaloniki (1917), during which 6 Scouts lost their lives in their effort to others' lives. They also helped in the rebuilding of the cities of Korinthos, Chalkidiki and Thessaloniki after disastrous earthquakes. In attempts of earning money to help the children, the small villages and Church, Scouts always state their energetic presence.
It is remarkable that they were discerned in series of national and sociable achievements in difficult times for the Country and the Greek Society, even giving their lives before leaving childhood and before leaving the scouting life.
Messengers, patient carriers, preparators of public meals and camp makers, were boy scouts during the Balcanian Wars and the First World War, where they earned medals for their brave actions.
During the II World War, the first officer of the Greek Army who was killed on the mountains of Heperos was Alexandros Diakos, who's sacrifice gave the signal to all the Greek Scouts to start their struggle for the freedom of our country. During the German Domination, scouts were organised and acted secretly. They gave help to the relatives of those who were arrested and fired by the Germans and with very important sabotages helped our Nation to be liberated.
A sacrifice and a world shocking
tragedy for the "Christ's Belief and the Country's Freedom", was the slaughter
of 32 Greek Boy Scouts by Turks in Aidini of Small Asia, in the western coasts of Turkey,
in 1919. The Boy Scouts prefered to die by the hands of Turks singing our National Anthem,
instead of changing their belief in God. Their memory is celebrated in the end of May.
JOHN DAGARIS TRANSLATED THE TEXT-WHICH HE
WROTE-FROM GREEK TO ENGLISH.
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