"Oh, compatriots, this is the moment of a lifetime," cried Gamal Abdel Nasser. After more than 2,000 years, Egypt was free of foreign occupiers for the first time since the Persians marched in in 525 B.C. Emotionally, Soldier Nasser kissed the green Egyptian flag, raised it with his own hands atop Port Said's Navy House, last headquarters of the once-mighty British naval base in Suez. The British, naturally reluctant to officiate at their own funeral, had quietly withdrawn their last troops before the evacuation deadline, but Gamal Abdel Nasser was undeterred in his triumph. Cried he: "This generation of Egyptian...
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