Over at Ethical ELA today we are remembering the Armenian Genocide—a systematic attempt to erase a people, a culture, and a history. But remembrance is not only about loss; it is also about survival, resilience, and honoring those who carried their stories forward. It is one of the many parts of history representing man's inhumanity towards man that is not always part of the curriculum.
I believe it is impossible to eliminate the seeds of the human spirit.
They tried to eradicate the resistance
Leaving a trail of blood, tears.
They ended, upended lives
Destroyed families, culture.
They tried to say it never happened
There was no targeted deportation.
There was no genocide.
They did not know that history
Would remember and condemn their hate.
The seeds of the human spirit remain
In the souls of all those with Armenian blood
In the hearts of all those with empathy
In the spirit of all those who stop to remember.
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