Hopefully, we give thanks
--> by Paul Chaderjian Armenian Reporter editorial Thanksgiving 2008 As we take time to reflect and express our gratitude this Thanksgiving week, we are first grateful that you have made the Armenian Reporter a part of your Armenian experience. We are also grateful that we have learned from our forebears the idea of hope: that what we want individually and collectively will come to be and that circumstances and situations will always evolve to serve the greater good. We are grateful that generations of our ancestors had been hopeful and allowed us to pass this foundation of our identity to the next generation of Armenian-Americans. This four-letter word, hope, is an easy yet powerful concept that has kept our people on track through good times and bad, through blessings and catastrophes, poverty and prosperity, through oppression and persecution, foreign rule and independence; and for having hope, we are grateful. Hope is the attitude that has made us...