St. Louis Greeks and their Fight for Macedonia (1912-1913)

Too much praise cannot be given the volunteers from America who rushed to the aid of the kingdom. They gave up their business, maybe their futures, and some of them their lives, and others their health and strength. Those who fell will be honored by their nation as long as time lasts.

These words of Colonel Thomas Hutchison, an American retired officer who served as a volunteer in the Balkan Wars and in 1913 produced a best-selling account of his time in Greece, frame today, almost a century after their original composition, a literary cenotaph for the thousands of Greek immigrants to America who returned home to fight for a Greek Macedonia during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).

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