Armenian scion Oliver Gordon, pictured at right, stands with Fr. Vazken Movsesian. They put on a night of remembrance of the Armenian Genocide at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, Calif. I attended along with some family. Dort and Grandma spoke Armenian the whole time. I also put up this piece about the band System of a Down's genocide-related activities...Basically I think it's a cool cause and my family has something to say about it. Grandma Rose used to be all freaked out sometimes that "the gates are closing" at night. I think that refers to some nighttime security thing in the Old Country, like you had to get inside the gates before they closed. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the Genocide, but it still reinforced the idea that in the past, bad things happened. Whatever. I was an impressionable youth, though, and that made for good story.
