"Before the dawn of the morning of October 28, 1940, the enemy cannons began to thunder and rain fire and iron. The 21st outpost of the Greek-Albanian border, at Golios Hill near Pyrsogianni, was the first target. There, in the trench holding the machine gun, Vasilios Tsivaliaris from Piaelia, Trikala fell dead. He was the first Greek soldier to be sacrificed for his homeland in his epic 40. "