Dr.
Lomis Letter to Senators
Dear Senator:
As many of
the great men who now belong to the centuries have advocated and
advised in one way or another, history is the record of the happenings
of an era. Thus, history cannot and must not be revised to suit
the desires of peoples and their nationalistic feelings, at the
expense of other peoples' ancestral identity. Unfortunately, such
is the case today regarding the identity of "Macedonia."
Macedonian history, with its center in Pella, as one
of the ancient Greek city-states dates back some 3,000 years,
and even longer, along with Attica (Athens), Lacedaemonia (Sparta),
Boeotia (Thebes) Corinth, Ionia, Epirus, etc.
Rather than gettimg into a diatribe with all those
who wish to revise history, please accept my letter strictly in
its historical context, for the historical record is the only
documentation of humanity's past.
I submit to you, therefore, some of the irrefutable
historical rudiments of the "Greekness" of Macedonia
and the ancient "Macedonians."
* The ancient Greeks placed the habitat of their gods
on Mount Olympus in Macedonia, something totally inconceivable
for the Greeks to place the habitat of their gods in a non-Greek,
"barbarian" territory.
* The ancient Greeks also placed the habitat of the
nine Muses on Osa Mountain of Pieria in Macedonia.
* Hesiod, the Greek Poet from Boeotia, refers that
the son of the ancient Greek gods of Zeus and Pandora, was the
forefather of the Macedonian people.
* The Greek folk hero Hercules, son of Zeus, was the
head of the people of Macedonia.
* The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was born
in Macedonia.
* Alexander the Great, Aristotle's student, considered
history's greatest military genius, acknowledged his Greek ancestry
on several occasions.
* The Macedonians were members of the Council of Delphi,
and only Greek states were eligible and accepted for membership.
* At least ten Macedonians won in as many Olympic
Games, in which only Greeks could participate.
* According to Herodotus, the Father of History, the
Macedonian king Alexander I (grandfather of Alexander the Great),
in registering with the Olympic Committee to participate in the
Games, registered as descendant of Hercules, son of Zeus.
* "Macedonia, therefore, is Greece," wrote
the Pontus-born, Roman-era historian and geographer who lived
circa 68 B.C. to 19 A.D.
History documents that the Slavic people who inhabit
northern Macedonia, did not arrive there until the 6th Century
A.D., and it was not until the 9th century that they received
a written language, the Cyrilic alphabet, devised for them by
the Greek monk Cyril.
Last, but certainly not least, let us consider the
importance of our United States foreign-policy facts of modern
times, and the statement of a recent and prominent United States
Secretary of State.
Following Marshall Tito's pronouncement of a "Macedonian
nation," near the conclusion of World War II, on December
26, 1944 then-Secretary of State Edward Stetinius sent in immediate
response the following "Circular Airgram (868.014):
"The Department has noted with considerable apprehension
increasing propaganda rumors and semi-official statements in favor
of an autonomous Macedonia, emenating principally from Bulgaria,
but also from Yugoslav Partisan and other sources, with the implication
that Greek territory would be included in the projected state.
'This Government considers talk of Macedonian "nation,"
Macedonian "Fatherland," or Macedonian "national
consciousness" to be unjustified demagoguery representing
no ethnic or political reality, and see in its present revival
a possible cloak of aggressive intentions against Greece."
In the final analysis, therefore, U.S. recognition
of a state with the pseudonym "Macedonia" would tantamount
to a Communist victory after the end of the Cold War on an issue
that our nation opposed them during the Cold War.
Perhaps the statement by former Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger suffices to acknowledge once more that "Macedonia,
therefore, is Greece," indeed for, as he said: "The
Greeks are correct on this; I know, because I know history!"
Looking forward to your support for the resolution
that Macedonia is Greek, in the manner by which this "empire
of reason" in America was established by our Founding Fathers
on the "age of reason" of the ancient Greece, I am
Respectfully yours,
Dean C. Lomis, Ph.D.
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