“The first time I met you, it wasn’t love at first sight. My love for you formed gradually. Your personality, your voice, your hair, your eyes, your humour, the way you look away and smile. After a while, it became clear to me that you were exactly what I was looking for.”
To this day, the quote I read in a survivors biography in 7th grade still haunts me. “Who does now remember the Armenians?”
You know who said that? Hitler. Adolf Hitler, as a way to justify the Holocaust. Because the world turned a blind eye to the Armenian genocide, he thought the world would turn its back to the Holocaust.
The worst part is, he was right. America, Europe, the governments knew what was going on. And they ignored it. Now, more than ever, remember the Armenians. Remember the Cambodians, Rwandans, Jews. Never again means now.