Henry Morgenthau. In a cable to the Secretary of State. Ambassador Morgenthau wrote: "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 process under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion." Some may ask why it is important to take time each year to commemorate an event which occurred over half a century ago. In reply I would recall the reported observation of Adolph Hitler as he contemplated the "final solution"-"Who remembers the Armenians?" Today we remember the 1.-million victims of the Armenian genocide. Undeniably it is not comfortable to repeatedly revisit this tragedy. or to visit the Holocaust Memorial Museum. or to have contemporary atrocities played out nightly on our television screens. as in Bosnia or Rwanda.
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