My Armenian Heritage (by Sooren Apkarian)

"September 7th, 1971, Tuesday:

We left Moscow by a 4-engine propeller-plane, to Yerevan. The plane's crew was completely Armenian and you could see the difference in the attitudes of people, more talkative, and the stewardesses, more cheerful. Now we felt more at home. The trip (from Moscow) took 3 1/2 hours, but it was a lot noisier, and you could feel the difference in the cabin pressure, how it plugged your ears up. As we flew over "our" Mt Ararat, we were told not to take any pictures, it was forbidden; bringing you back to the reality of the Soviet regime!

Mt Ararat, where Noah's Ark landed, the site of Armenia's origin, 17,000 feet high - reaching toward the heavens - still pleading to God for justice of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Turks and still waiting for the cruel and unjust world to return Our lands, to the "Armenians'" (Too bad Armenians weren't in the movie making business (Editors note: pre-Ararat) back then for we could be reminding the amnesia- minded world about our Armenian Genocide, the loss of half of our Armenian race, just like the Jews who keep reminding the world about their "holocaust" in practically every movie'. And they, ironically, are the ones who support the Turkish government, because they gave the Jews a home, centuries back, when the rest of the world was driving them out of their countries. But, what about the hypocrisy, the double standards regarding humanity, do they forget about the suffering of Armenians because they are not "Jewish" or can that be overlooked more easily, because we are Christians?"