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Obameter Keeps Track of President’s Campaign Promise on Genocide
Those interested in finding out whether President Barack Obama is keeping the hundreds of promises he made during the presidential campaign, including the one on the Armenian Genocide, now have a simple tool to keep track of all of them.
A group of journalists, headed by Bill Adair, the Washington bureau chief of the St. Petersburg Times of Florida, have set up a website (www.politifact.com) that tracks the promises made by various politicians during their campaigns.
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For National Security reasons, it shouldn’t be hard to say a few words, including the word genocide, for American heroes of Armenian heritage in memoriam who died as Christian Martyrs fighting for the virtues of this country. It is the least he can do.
Moreover, Congress should have awarded Victor Maghakian and Harry Kizirian the Medal of Honor but didn’t because they didn’t want to draw attention to the bloodiest battles in suicide missions during WWII.
The other simple act for the President to do is to find the grave site location for Arman Manookian in Hawaii. His state should build a art exhibition center and aquarium, withvManookian themes, guarded by unarmed Marines as a mental healing center for Veterans suffering from PTSD.
That is also a very simple act in gratitude.