The Armenian Legion and Its Heroism in the Middle East During World War I
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Legionnaire Gaspar Menag recounted: "We are asked: Why, when life in the United States was so comfortable, did we leave and come to Cilicia where we knew that we were going into the jaws of death? Our response remains the same: What true Armenian would prefer a comfortable life when his family was under the yoke and being massacred by the Turks; when our entire nation was humiliated by the Turks and in the throes of the last moments of life? Of what use is the life of an individual when his entire nation is being murdered?"
Pictured: Battalion waiting to leave from Ismailia, 1918. |
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Last modified on: December 14, 2009
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