This is a two-part story about two Detroit Armenian brothers during war: the eldest Haigus, a five star hero during World War II, and the youngest Hagop (Jack) during the Korean War. It is a story of the Tufenkjians, an immigrant Armenian family who came to Detroit, Michigan after the Armenian Genocide, and their offspring born in the early 1920s.
The family was composed of four children, three boys and a girl. The siblings in order of age are Ghazarn (John), age 26, Haigus, age 20, Angelle, age 19, and Hagop (Jack), age 12. The two oldest children found themselves of draft age in 1942 after Pearl Harbor.
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Remembering Haigus and Jack …
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Remembering Haigus and Jack …
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