Live Event Schedule
2:30 pm
Oxi Service Awards
Presentation of the Oxi Service Awards and Calamos Service Award
The National World War II Memorial, 17th Street, NW between Constitution and Independence Avenues
U.S. and Greek National Anthems: Ariana George
Remarks: Andrew E. Manatos, Washington Oxi Day Foundation President and Founder
Keynote: Lt. Gen. Andrew Poppas, Highest-ranking Greek-American in the U.S. Armed Forces
Calamos Service Award
Vietnam War Veteran: Peter J. Vergados
Introduced by John P. Calamos, Sr., Decorated Vietnam War Veteran
Oxi Service Award
Korean Var Veteran: Stephen Cherpelis
Introduced by Col. Panagiotis Vlachopoulos, Greek Defense Attaché
Vasilios S. Haseotes Service Award
WWII Veteran: Efthemios J. “Tim” Bentas
Introduced by Mike Manatos, Washington Oxi Day Foundation Executive Director
6:00 pm
Cocktails
7:30 pm
Oxi Courage Awards
The Capitol View, 400 North Capitol Street NW - rooftop
National Anthems of the U.S. and the Hellenic Republic: Ariana George
Mike Manatos
Executive Director, Washington Oxi Day Foundation
Video: World Leaders Praise #OXIcourage
Greeting: Ambassador of Greece to the U.S. Alexandra Papadopoulou
Video: You Should Too
Metropolitan Chrysostomos Award
Honoree: His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
Worldwide spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians
Introduced by: Mike Psaros, Washington Oxi Day Foundation
Advisory Board Member
Andrew Manatos, Washington Oxi Day Foundation President and Founder
Video: Greeting from The Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Introduced by: George Marcus, Washington Oxi Day Foundation
Advisory Board Member
Video: “The Greek Secret” of Philotimo
Philotimo Scholarship Award
Introduced by: The Hon. B. Theodore Bozonelis, Trustee, Nicholas J. & Anna K. Bouras Foundation
Remarks: Nicholas Logothetis, Washington Oxi Day Foundation Advisory Board Member
Video: Oxi Courage Continues to Inspire
Video: Cliffs of Freedom
Remarks: C. Dean Metropoulos, Metropoulos & Co
Oxi Courage Award
Honoree: Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Jailed leader of Cuba’s anti-government protests
Introduced by: Senator Bob Menendez, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
Accepted by: Anamely Ramos
Honoree: Zarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan’s first female and youngest mayor
Introduced by: Danialle Karmanos
Friday, October 29, 2021
9:00 am
Wreath Laying Ceremony
Arlington National Cemetery, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
WE CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY'S DAVIDS VS. GOLIATHS
PAST AND PRESENT IN THE SPIRIT OF OXI DAY