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To: Ravnagora

So during the period in which the Turks were killing a million-plus Armenians, they were also busy killing hundreds of thousands of Christian Assyrians, and another million Greeks.

If you look at the various holocausts as a single whole, you have a decade-long slaughter of Christians that added up to several millions, with millions more fleeing into exile.


3 posted on 05/26/2012 2:55:46 PM PDT by marron
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My grandparents came here in the early 20’s and had to leave it all behind. It was like a death march to the boats. They could only bring what they could carry.

My maternal grandmother came here with an Armenian lady who said she saw people impaled on sticks.

I think the Armenians had the worst of it because they were wealthy.

Turks stole their property and money.... THEN killed them outright.

Greeks in Asia Minor were not typically wealthy but had been there for thousands of years.

My grandmother's two boys starved to death and she came here with only a daughter. All her other daughters were subsequently born in the US. My mom included.

They arrived here with ABSOLUTELY nothing. They were screened for their health and fitness to work. Then they were instructed in English (enough to be able to take the oath of allegiance to the US and to be able to read a ballot.)

NOW it's different.

16 posted on 09/10/2014 9:15:26 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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