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Playing the Genocide Numbers Game in Armenia

When people tell me I look like a million, I don’t know who’s fooling whom. I don’t know whether they mean I feel like I just inherited a million bucks, or that I look like a million (years).

Either way, it turns into a numbers game that is far beyond my comprehension and yours. People with a $10 million lottery ticket are no better off than a $9 million winner. A million in this case doesn’t make a big difference either way.

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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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  1. I would like to get in touch with families who lost their great grandpartents during the genocide in Tekirdag.  Few members of my family survived and I am trying to put some pieces together and find their houses and visit the city.

  2. It is better to say that you are a “ONE POINT FIVEr.” Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote a whole book about us in his 2007 novel called “The Last Theorem.”

    It is your job now to put the “soul” in the machine through Wipedia. However, I would caution you to be weary of CIA/FBI agents monitoring the edits regarding Monte Melkonian and having their edits coming in ways to diminish his contributions and capabilities and those of Armenian Americans who served in WWI, WWII and the Korean conflict. There job, in propaganda, is to make you feel as though you are a newly arrived immigrant while the Turks get a free ride on your backs. Read “The Armenian American in WWII” [Tashjian Publishing, 1952] to understand what I am talking about. Since when did it become unwholesome or UN-American to be a Dashnak, AYF or ARF? Read up on the Derian brothers and Harry Kizirian and you may be able to get a “Pulitzer Prize” for reporting on this topic and how the United States allows terrorist organizations to interfere with our military honors in the United States. 

    These same CIA/FBI and Marine Corps personel are really traitors to all Americans and especially Americans of Armenian heritage.

    The reason I believe they are traitors is because they collaborated and continue to collaberate with “Ergenekon” [a Turkish state sponsored terrorist organization closely affiliated with Al Queada and the Taliban].

    If you are ever approached by them, recognize that they are the enemy. A good solid jab with a sharp K-BAR should get the point across, figuratively speaking of course.  Do it so it makes O.J. Simpson blush with envy.

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