Wow. The only president in my lifetime who came close to recognizing the genocide was reagan.
Past presidents said they would but they didn't and I didn't think that Biden would be any different.
Biden proved me wrong.
Finally a president who at least recognizes it happened. Hopefully all presidents from Biden forward will recognize it for what it was.
A GENOCIDE.
I have distant relatives who were victims. Great uncles and aunts.
Mine aren't that distant.
My grandmother got out but not before the men of her village were rounded up and taken away. She told me the next time she saw her dad, uncles and cousins was they were lined up and shot. She told me what it was like to have her dad's brains splattered on her.
She told me the toll it took on her mother to see this, scream in horror only for a soldier to rip the baby from her arms, throw her up in the air and catch that baby girl on the end of his bayonet.
She told me the reason why she hated sand the rest of her life.
They were made to march through the desert. When my great grandmother started she had 12 children with her. When the march ended, there were 6. One of those 6 was my grandmother.
My great grandmother arranged for my grandmother to come to the United States with a distant uncle from another village. She came in through Cape Cod.
On my grandfather's side they sent 3 brothers to the United States. One of them was my grandfather. They came into the United States through Ellis Island. As far as I know, everyone else in his family who didn't get out died.