R.I.P
Christos Mitsacopoulos
1921-2011
Thus the reason for my disappearance!
We were about to go on holidays for a week,
splurging on a 5star hotel to be pampered
so as Gregory could recuperate from surgery
(he finally had the screws removed from his femur)
no sooner we left the hospital we got a call.....
that G's father was not well.
The ambulance was called and we went straight to the hospital.
We arrived in emergency Friday night 8pm
an available bed in the wards was found at 2am Saturday morning!!
Tentative diagnosis was pulmonary oedema so death was imminent
but that was not the case
it was a respiratory infection so strong
that this feisty nonagenarian
could not fight!!
the doctors tried to fight for him
we tried to fight for him
but there was no more fight left in him!
As a babe his family fled from Constantinople
leaving all their wealth and property behind!
As a teen in Thessaloniki he defied the Germans by stealing their weapons and
dumping them in the Thermaic Gulf....
he was caught and sent to
Mettenheim Concentration Camp
he fought to survive by eating raw bread dough and
drinking lots of water!
As a young adult he entered the foreign office as a means
to studying chemistry his first post was in Czechoslovakia
to studying chemistry his first post was in Czechoslovakia
he fought to help Greeks leave the country
by faking passports, as a result....
by faking passports, as a result....
his second post was the USSR in 1957
he became a respected consul in the foreign office
such was his reputation that he was sent to
Hungary mid 1960's.....
here he fought against the Hungarian police
that had no qualms about
invading the Greek Consulate late at night
what they did not realise is that
he did not fear the communists!!
he refused a post in New York
much to the wife's and sons dismay LOL
and served his final working years in Paris
upon retirement he returned with his wife to Greece
where he had to fight a new battle that of the degenerating neurological disease called Parkinsons
he became a respected consul in the foreign office
such was his reputation that he was sent to
Hungary mid 1960's.....
here he fought against the Hungarian police
that had no qualms about
invading the Greek Consulate late at night
what they did not realise is that
he did not fear the communists!!
he refused a post in New York
much to the wife's and sons dismay LOL
and served his final working years in Paris
upon retirement he returned with his wife to Greece
where he had to fight a new battle that of the degenerating neurological disease called Parkinsons
he fought long and hard for 16years
till Tuesday 19th of July 2011
where he put down his boxing gloves.....
Give them hell Kyrie Christo where ever you are!!
you will be missed
but always remembered with love, affection and respect
with love
your kangaroo
(his nickname for me)
Irini
till Tuesday 19th of July 2011
where he put down his boxing gloves.....
Give them hell Kyrie Christo where ever you are!!
you will be missed
but always remembered with love, affection and respect
with love
your kangaroo
(his nickname for me)
Irini
