Breitbart All Gave Some, Some Gave All
One of the most famous epitaphs in history was inscribed near a battlefield in Greece, some 2,500 years ago:
Go, tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.
These simple yet elegiac lines were written by the poet Simonides of Ceos to commemorate the heroic but doomed defense of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., as the badly outnumbered Spartans fought bravely and yet were eventually overwhelmed by the Persians.  These poetic words were subsequently noted and recorded by Herodotus, remembered as the âfather of history.â Â
