To begin with, I am neither a student of history, nor do I have a doctorate of 
the same.   In writing this commentary, my only background in history is what  
little I have  experienced as an eighty-five year old son of a respected 
Armenian immigrant who survived the 1915 massacres by the Ottoman Turks.
 

And herein, lies the crux of my commentary.  
 

According to the worldwide testimonial of my father's generation, the Turks 
massacred 1,500,000 innocent Turkish Armenian subjects.  To this day, there 
has been denial upon denial from the Turkish Government without a whisper of 
guilt nor reason for the sudden disappearance of 1,500,000 of their Armenian 
victims from that period.
 

Today, the democratization of the Soviet Republic has given a rebirth to a 
small Armenian nation, and it seems that our great nation (the United States 
of America) wants to see blame of massacre erased from Turkey's unwritten 
past.  But before this happens, I would like to see how our great nation 
truthfully justifies what the Ottoman Turks did to my father's massacred 
generation.
 
 
Joseph Vosbikian