Well, it’s officially our last day in Rhodes and we’re back
to Athens tomorrow. One of the many things I’ve learned on this trip is that I need
to watch more movies. After getting some of our blog topics, or reading blogs
written by others whenever a movie is referenced I realize that I have never
seen it. Today’s topic was “Live Free, Die Hard” which I had to google to find
out what that even meant and Wikipedia told me that it means something along
the lines of living passionately for something and being willing to die for it.
Today we talked about the massacre of Masada and how the
Jews decided that they would rather die than become slaves to the Romans. So…in
the end they ended up killing themselves and their families, leaving the Romans
“dumbfounded.”
I’d like to think that there are things that I believe in so
passionately that I’d be willing to die for them, but honestly…I don’t know if
I’d be brave enough to actually kill myself for them.
Throughout this trip we’ve looked at many cemeteries, just
today we drove past 4 or 5 all right next to each other which makes me think,
what was going on when these people died? Were they standing up for something
they believed in?
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