With the conclusion of the "1,000 Year Song Festival" in Vilnius, Lithuania - July 1 to July 6, memories of prior events popped up.
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A thousand years, well it is actually longer, but that was documented in writing that Lithuania was first mentioned
in a medieval German manuscript, the Quedlinburg Chronicle, on 14 February 1009.
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So, you might say, so what.
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But, think about it if you know, despite all that history this nation and this people overcame quite a bit to remain unique and united.
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Lithuanian and its people were overrun time and again and each time, in time, returned as a free nation with language and culture surviving continuously.
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With the most archaic language, studied by scholars and having been run over numerous times, never lost its identity. It people had too much will, ancient will of thousands of years, to much pride and maybe stubbornness to give in. The language and the culture survived all calamities that came and went.
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If you saw some of the events of the "1000 Year Song Festival" you could not help but notice how thousands of people from all over the world, Lithuanians, acted a one. One FREE people with joy and singing hundreds of songs. Dancing huge dances in folk rhythm and precision.
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If you are inclined, see some of these events that were chronicled here from Lithuanian Public Television that were gotten from satellite feed and reformatted the transmission to share with whomever came here. See our JULY archives before some of the feeds expire.
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Next, I will bring you a story of survival, an individual story - a story with the will to survive.
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