Chaderjian: If It’s A Hye Shoe, Let’s Wear It Out

Why does everyone feel compelled to make light of this wonderful discovery? Everyone from those in the Armenian press to the idiots commenting on the Huffington Post. What’s so damned funny? A good friend used to complain that Armenians don’t know their own history and I think she was right. Worst of all is those Armenians who feel compelled to specify “in what is now Armenia.” Do these brainiacs feel fulfilled in pointing out that some Armenians arrived from parts North. What do they think happened to the indigenous folks? Did they just disappear? Escape to another planet perhaps. People, this is a great find. There’s nothing funny about it. We should be proud that the oldest wheels in the world are those pulled out of Lakes Van and Sevan (original People’s Almanac) and not the politically correct “Mesopotamia.” The turks have done such a good job of wiping out our history and our clout that the world would rather say the Iraqis invented the wheel than the Armenians. Wake up people, we were among the first, if not the first, to practice agriculture, metallurgy, and animal husbandry. Xenophon and his men brought beer, snow shoes, and skis they picked up in Armenia to Europe. They couldn’t have made it through our mountains without them. Our forebears were brilliant. Get used to it people. Know your own history. There’s nothing funny about it.