I lost my king and my brother only a year ago. I thought of the cryptic words of victory from my king who has proven wise over time. The word was spread from free Greek to free Greek that Leonidas the bold and his 300 had given their lives in a place far from home. They did it for Sparta, for all of Greece, and the promise they hold. At this moment, on this scorched and trodden area of Plataea, the hordes of Xerxes face annihilation! The barbarians are huddled in sheer terror as the cold fills their hearts because they know with certainty what horrors and suffering lay at the tip of the spears of the 300.
