Speech #940035877

I would be the last one to stand here and ask my colleagues. in the words of my colleague. the gentleman from California to bend the procedural rules of this House. But it would seem to me that if there is anything we should have learned in this year 1975. it is that we can ill afford. in the civilization of ours. the repetition of the events of 1915. the repetition of so many tragic events that followed as has already been set forth by the speakers who preceded me. Let me say that I. as a youngster. if I may take this point of personal privilege. remember walking the streets of old Jerusalem. and I remember the Armenian community in that walled city distinguished itself by its hard work. the type of hard work. the type of concern for the community in which they resided. and in other communities in which they have resided as refugees following the 1915 holocaust. This includes my district that I share with the gentleman from California . an Armenian community that has been a hardworking community and that has arisen out of the rubble of the event. of 1915 to make its tremendous contribution in the State of California and throughout this country of ours. I think the importance of this resolution lies. not only in remembering 1915. but in remembering that even in this year 1975 we still have massacres.