America at 250Featured
‘We trust that you will understand us and stretch out your brotherly and helping hand’
Editor’s note: This article appeared in the Armenian Weekly’s March 2026 special magazine issue, “America at 250: An Armenian American Retrospective,” guest edited by former Weekly editor Dr. Khatchig Mouradian and dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence and the history of Armenian American life.
The power of images to tell stories and connect us with past events is well known to the point of being a cliché: a picture is worth a thousand words and so forth. But sometimes a cliché endures because it expresses a deep truth: and sometimes a photograph is all that remains to inform us about and to evoke a moment that has long since passed into history.
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The hope and excitement of a repeatedly betrayed people whose self-proclaimed leaders keep crawling back again and again, to kneel at the feet of those who have never done anything but mouth false promises, only to kick the foolish natives in the teeth, yet again. TRIPP anyone?
Armenians and Armenian organizations still clinging to the misplaced hope that the United States, the West, Russia, the international community, etc., will somehow come to the rescue of the Armenian nation, seem to forget their conspicuous lack of action and even indifference during the Armenian Genocide, the Second Artsakh War and other national calamities. Why this wishful thinking, denial and collective amnesia about the shameful conduct of these foreign interests during Armenians’ most calamitous moments?