I rise to pay tribute to the memory of the more than 1.5 million innocent Armenian men. women. and children exterminated by the Ottoman Turks in 1915--and the more than 1 million Armenians who were forced into exile from their ancestral homeland of 3.000 years. Three years later. Henry Morgenthau. United States Ambassador to Turkey. wrote in his memoir. "Ambassador Morgenthaus Story": When the Turkish authorities gave the order for these deportations. they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race. they understood this well. and. In their conversations with me. they made no particular attempt to conceal this fact. The survivors of this deportation made their homes in different lands. They formed the core of what became the largest Armenian community in the Diaspora. In the United States.
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