Three Apples: #GenocideFilm: Hashtagged Prophecies for a New Year
By Paul Chaderjian a column for the asbarez newspaper Once there were and there were not … #We become the story we tell ourselves On Friday, April 24, 2015, I walked among hundreds of thousands snaking through the reflective pathway to the needle monument and concrete slabs nesting our eternal flame. We held hands, moved in unison, tweeted pictures and carried flowers underneath a sheltering sky of gloom. One hundred pathological years of lies had passed since one of the greatest human catastrophes, when the physical manifestations of our iconic culturemakers and culturekeepers had been gathered and sent to heaven. But their souls were freed. And they became the caretakers of those who survived, empowering them to defeat the deletion… and undelete our ancient culture. We would not be aborted. We escaped to the remote corners of the world. We were dumped on beaches and built shantytowns from scraps to shelter our haggard bodies and souls. Some of us chang...