She and many of my Armenian brothers and sisters have long waited for validation from our country and the international community of simply acknowledging the events that took place and were well documented at the time. Growing up. I heard stories about our relatives who were lost. As I got older. I read the telegram sent by our Ambassador Henry Morgenthau to the Secretary of State on July 16. 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." EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS. Vol. 154. Pt. 5 We are told by some to forget the Armenian Genocide. to get over it.
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