For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

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When King Leonidas’ people saw their chance to escape during the great battle of Thermopylae, they didn’t take it. They watched as their own men were killed by the Persian army, but they stood still. Their own fathers before them had fled from the Persians, so why would they stand up to fight?

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