NYT: The Island Where People Forget

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria., nytimes.com

In 1943, a Greek war vet­er­an named Stama­tis Moraitis came to the Unit­ed States for treat­ment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d sur­vived a gun­shot wound, escaped to Turkey and even­tu­al­ly talked his way onto the Queen Eliz­a­beth, then serv­in…