E-Mail 'Longtime ARF Activist Tigran Sarkuni Passes Away' To A Friend

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1. Dear Maggie {Mrs. Sarkuni); family; Ungers;

   It seems like yesterday when our entire “Gasm” of the ARF Central Committee of the
   Eastern USA attended your wedding in Los Angeles. Where has all the time gone?

   I can never forget his dry wit and perspicacity in half serious and joking comments on so
   many issues that we were involved with that always revealed the correct path for us to follow.
   For example, I can never forget the following analysis: that the Armenian people are far too
   intelligent to be fooled by a ridiculus explanation of a bad decision we may make.

   He said, for example, “Do you think that they would forgive us like the Egyptian people
   did after losing the Six Day War in 1967, where tens of thousands were gathered in a great
   public square to hear their leaderships explanation for that great tragedy. There, Abdul Gamal
   Nassar, the Egyptian president said, we lost because they fooled us, they did not fight fair,
   we thought they would attack us from the East (Sark) but instead they came from the West
   (Gharb). In agreement with that inane explanation the great throng shouted,- NASSAR,-
   NASSAR,- NASSAR.” All this in a mocking tone of voice, partially in Arabic to make his point
   for those who knew Arabic, with his typical theatrical emphasis to illustrate his intelligent point.

   I will miss him greatly, staying with him in his Mount Olympus home in L .A. instead of
   my Nephew or my Hyastanstzi cousins on those occasions when I find myself in California….

   “Togh hogheh tehtev kah ir ahjounnerin verah.”

   Unger Ned (Nishan) Apigian
   Dearborn Heights MI

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