We all know the awful details. 1.5 million Armenians. men. women. and children. slain between 1915 and 1923 by the Ottoman Government of Turkey. We know from the reports of our own U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau who wired the Secretary of State in July 1915: Deportation of and excesses against peaceful Armenians is increasing and from harrowing reports of eye witnesses it appears that a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion. We know from the tragic reports of massacred families by those lucky enough to escape. Today we commemorate those 1.5 million victims of the Armenian genocide.
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