WASHINGTON, DC—The Obama Administration has advised Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) that the White House will be making the Armenian Orphan Rug—woven by young survivors of the Armenian Genocide and presented as a gift to President Calvin Coolidge in appreciation of U.S. relief efforts for the survivors of this crime—available for public display at an event to be held as early as Fall, 2014, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
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“The Story of Near East Relief” has an introduction by Calvin Coolidge. This is a book everyone should read; it explains the history of the humanitarian work done to help the orphans; plus a history of the region, which will aid in your understanding of what happened; plus pictures of the poor orphans, who look like the emaciated victims of Nazi concentration camps (some of who died in the refugee camps, and others who were saved by the relief organization).
The White House and the United States administration in general treats the Armenian Genocide issue as an “abomination” not to touch, when they ready to offer advice to the rest of the world on every subject under the sun. When pressed on the Armenian Genocide issue they seem to loose their mastery on vocabulary and they become tongue tied. Either we as a community of Americans of Armenian origin are too weak politically or Turkey has a hold on our politicians that count of the national scene. The fact that they made such a fuss on displaying this carpet, makes me wonder whether they are even ready to disclose the nature of archives at their disposal on Armenian Genocide.
I feel so good that I wrote a letter to President Coolidge’s Library in Stow Vermont. I also wrote a nice letter to President Obama a similar letter, asking him to display what our grandmother’s knitted and sent it as a gift to then president Calvin Coolidge.
I am sure many of you have written similar letters urging those in charge to display this rug.
This is how we achieve any objective. This how we accomplish any mission. Each and everyone of us must get involved. We should all knock on every door by writing, texting, emailing, calling and make everyone aware of failure policies of our representatives.
Let this initiative be a beacon for hope and a motto for success.
Always, United we Stand and Devided we fall. God Bless America and God Bless Armenia.
Getse hay joghovourt,
We are all Armenians.