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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.
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  2. I admire Margaret Ahnert for her dedication to the Armenian people and cause however her winning the Ellis Island Medal for Honor is a bit ironic. Yes, she has looked out for human rights but has “bagged” an elk, which she feels is not a cruel practice. Elk goring each other is a natural part of their animal society. If she truly wanted to help the needy by feeding them an elk, she would have aimed for the weaker creature but the one she shot was a very large animal, who was probably very healthy, weighing 1000 lbs. Hunters try to fool themselves by saying they are helping the animals by culling the herds. This is not true. They are out for the hunt, the joy of killing another living creature. Hunters target the largest, healthiest animals leaving the herd with the weaker animals. This in turn diminishes the gene pool of the herd and ultimately allows the animals to suffer from more diseases, etc. A true humanitarian understands that all creatures have a place on this planet and killing them for sport shows a cruel, unhuman, primitive side in a person.

  4. This interview helped me to discover Margaret Ajemian Ahnert as an active person, who has many individual interests and her own opinion to everything. I’m glad, that in our nation there are such people, who never forget about their roots and do as much as they can for their motherland.
    “Knock at the door” is one of those books, which I read with huge interest and at the end I just found one more great personality for me-Ester Ajemian. She was very beautiful and really wise woman, who never gave up but struggled to live. Her story is not just her story, it’s our nation’s story. This book is a must read for everyone.I am proud to be your compatriot.

  5. I am proud to be one of the ‘Margaret Ahnert Ajemyan scholarship’ recipients and I am very impressed by everything you do to Armenia and to its young generation.

    This interview helped me to learn many interesting things and can’t say how much I truly admire Margaret Ahnert Ajemyan.

    I must say that I felt very excited while reading the book “The knock at the door” and due to your graphic description I felt all that disaster, once again feeling sorry for the bitter fate fallen to my nation’s lot. I ‘got acquainted’ to a brave Armenian woman who evoked a feeling of pride – I am grateful to your mother!

    Hope that one day I will be such a great writer as you are .

  6. About the Morgenthau statement that if her book had been written earlier the Holocaust may have been prevented:
    Franz Werfel wrote a semi-fiction book about the Armenian genocide and the attempt at resistance by one group of Armenians, THE FORTY DAYS OH MUSA DAGH, in 1933!!! As a Jew he saw what was happening in Europe with the ascent of Hitler and hoped the book would help to convince people that what happened to the Armenians could also happen to the Jews of Europe. There are chapters in the book of an imagined discussion between a German pastor and a Turkish official that are quite chilling. Werfel’s book was soon banned both in Turkey and in Germany and eventually he fled to the United States. Wasn’t Morgenthau’s ambassador grandfather based in Turkey in 1915?

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