Enjoy the light of Christ.
Memory eternal.
Posted on 09/07/2004 7:15:10 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Hey, perhaps the unemployment figure over there is such an elderly man can get a job as a gym teacher. This is Russia ya know.
Blessed Father Maximillian Kolbe bump.
Enjoy the light of Christ.
Memory eternal.
Saint Yanis.
You learn a lot in 74 years.
Not about Israel, but so what?
My thoughts exactly--and then I saw you posted it first.
Words fail me....
"...and his Hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another."
We all have to die, but not every death has to be meaningless. This man died beautifully; he died superbly well. He is blessed!
This man is a true hero, I would make him an honorary member of the fraternity of Flight 93, like them, he did what he could to protect his students. I must admit I wonder if I would ever have the same courage as this man, but Kanidis deserves some recognition and medal of some sort.
*sniffles*
For all the evil there is in the world, there is still so many that give so much kindness and love to others.
Amazing man. Absolutely amazing.
The body of an elderly ethnic Greek teacher was identified on Saturday among the hundreds of dead left behind after Friday’s massacre in a Russian school where pro-Chechen terrorists were holding over 1,000 hostages.
Seventy-four-year-old Yiannis Kanidis taught physical education at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia, which was seized last Wednesday by more than 30 terrorists who took staff, pupils and parents hostage.
Reports say Kanidis was shot by the gunmen when he tried to dismantle a ceiling fan in the school gym, where the hostages were being held, which had been wired to an explosive device. Kanidis’s family, who live in Beslan, say the teacher refused an offer by the terrorists to release him, in order to stay close to his pupils.
At least 350 people died when Russian forces stormed the school on Friday.
On Saturday, the Foreign Ministry announced that, with the help of the Church of Greece, it would provide economic aid to rebuild the Beslan school.
MOSCOW. Sept 6 (Interfax) - The Greek Embassy in Russia has informed the Russian authorities that Greece is ready to provide aid for the victims of the terrorist attack in the North Ossetian town of Beslan.
If the Russian authorities agree, Greece would supply Russia with medicines and blood, and make medical personnel available for assisting those wounded in the terrorist attack, the embassy said in a release circulated on Monday.
Bulgarians drop in the Russian Embassy in Sofia to write down their condolences over the victims of Beslan's terrorism. So far the death tool stands at 338 people, more than half of them children.
It wouldn't be that unusual if the gym teacher was in charge of younger children.
Our elementary school had an older gym teacher who was around for ages, and he would lead the little children in basic exercises and simple games of kickball etc.
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