WASHINGTON, DC –The Oxi Day story was exposed to many of Washington’s political elite through the awarding of a Washington Oxi Day Foundation scholarship to a student at St. Albans School in Washington. The children of Senior White House officials, State Department assistant secretaries, Congressional committee chairmen and others prominent Washingtonians attend this school where the scholarship essay contest took place for the second year in a row.

This particular school’s graduates range from former Vice President Al Gore, to businessman J. W. Marriott Jr., to television anchor Brit Hume, to author Gore Vidal, as well as numerous U. S. Senators, Members of the House of Representatives and Cabinet officials.

Students were asked to write an essay about what actions of the modern era best parallel the “David vs. Goliath” courage that the Greek people showed for freedom and democracy in WWII. The Oxi Day story was exposed to hundreds of current students and their parents through advertisements and participation in the scholarship contest. The winning student John Ahn received a $1,000 scholarship from the Foundation.

It is the hope of the Washington Oxi Day Foundation that the story of modern history’s most consequential David vs. Goliath courage, as shown by the people of Greece in WWII, will be infused into the minds of current and future policymakers through this essay contest. It is important that policymakers remember Greece’s first defeat of the Axis Forces in WWII and delay of Hitler, forcing him into the Russian winter, that was credited by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Russian leader Joseph Stalin and US Under Secretary of State Sumner Wells as playing a crucial role in Hitler’s ultimate defeat.