It has become traditional for friends of Armenia to mark this awful April anniversary with them. to demonstrate our solidarity and to express the determination never again to allow such a horror to take place. Though April 24 is the date singled out to mark the catastrophe. the actual process of genocide took place over a period of years. During that nightmarish era. which lasted from 1915 to 1923. some 1.5 million Armenians were brutalized. tortured. massacred. starved. deported. and forcemarched to death. But. the Armenian spirit survived intact this ruthless assault. Steeled by adversity. many of the survivors came to the United States. where they could nurse their physical and emotional wounds. and begin their lives anew.
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