I recently attended a webinar, hosted by author Peter S. Giakoumis, regarding the Balkan Wars.  I decided to go back and review his book “The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars:  Greek-Americans and Philhellenes 1912-1913”, (available at most online bookstores).   This book contains hundreds of American newspaper articles about the Balkan Wars, published by big city and small-town newspapers.  I realized that many of these articles contained names and stories about Greek immigrants who were returning to Greece to fight in the war, and those men who returned to the U.S. after the war.    717 GREEK NAMES MENTIONED IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES in “The Forgotten Heroes of the Balkan Wars” by Peter S. Giakoumis (Note:  Many of the names were misspelled in the articles.  I transcribed them as printed.) Abariotes, Stephen Aemodius, Vinnias Ageletos, Angel Agriostathi Agriostathis, John Agristathis, John Alekopoulos, Andrew Alex Alexanders, Nick Alexapul...

  Forgotten Heroes:  Greek-Americans Write Home By Peter S. Giakoumis Published in The National Herald July 17, 2021   The National Herald has given HellenicGenealogyG e ek.com permission to post articles that are of interest to our group --------------------------------------------  How did the Americanized Greeks get their story back to relatives and friends in the United States? How did we inherit intimate knowledge of the exploits of the forgotten heroes? The true answer runs contrary to a commonly held belief. Today we have first-hand accounts from the battlefields of the Balkans because Americanized Greeks wrote letters, thousands of them, to friends and family in the United States. Yes, they had the ability to read and write in Greek, and some could carry on conversations in English, with American accents of course. Others could actually read and write in English, perhaps not fluently, but well enough. The letters and post cards they sent often inclu...