Thousands of years ago, the Persian Emperor Xerxes and 600,000 of the fiercest fighters in the world came to invade and conquer Greece, they faced Spartan King/General Leonidas, 300 of his personal bodyguard, plus a handful of Thebans and others who had volunteered to defend their homeland against them.
When Xerxes offered to spare their lives if they laid down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back:
"MOLON LABE!"
"Come and get them!"
In the spot of the battle today, there stands a plaque honoring the memories of those valiant men, it reads:
"Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie."
America's Vietnam veterans stood their ground, and refused to lay down their arms, and in the end, they proved that winning a battle is sometimes more important than winning the war.
To the brothers who fought and fell, and to the ones who fought beyond the war...and won the battle, goes the thanks of a grateful nation.
Well done...well done indeed.
Go tell the Spartans...
It is also said that before the final words were spoken, and the famous Molon Labe uttered, that Xerxes told Leonidas that he had so many archers to assail the Spartans with that their arrows would darken the sky and blot out the son.
...to which Leonidas replied, "Then we shall fight in the shade!"