The 111th Anniversary Of The Armenian Genocide

Ajouté : 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]So, we're going to the memorial.

[00:00:03]And we got some flowers.

[00:00:09]Owen, show me the flowers you got.

[00:00:11]Very pretty.

[00:00:14]Pearl, show me the flowers you got.

[00:00:16]Weston got some lilacs.

[00:00:19]I got some Those are pretty. Pearl, what do you have?

[00:00:22]Ruby's got some nice flowers.

[00:00:25]Ooh, I love it.

[00:00:27]No, that's a What are those called, Joel? Dahlias. What are that What are those called? Um I don't know.

[00:00:33]I can't remember what they're called.

[00:00:36]But here we are in downtown Yerevan.

[00:00:44]Pretty nice.

[00:00:47]Going up to the genocide memorial.

[00:00:51]It's the 100th 111th anniversary of the genocide.

[00:00:58]And there's a lot of people walking up with us to show their respects.

[00:01:06]They have their flowers.

[00:01:17]There they are.

[00:01:20]You got a flower.

[00:01:22]>> [laughter] >> Just made it up to the memorial.

[00:01:47]See what he got.

[00:01:55]>> [crying] >> Oh, mine here.

[00:02:12]This is the Genocide Memorial.

[00:02:16]To commemorate 111 years since the Armenian Genocide.

[00:03:35]Here we replace your flowers.

[00:03:38]What is buddy?

[00:03:41]Put your flower up there. Put your flower up there.

[00:03:44]Put your flower up there. Hey, go ahead.

[00:03:46]Put it on the pile of flowers.

[00:03:48]Go ahead.

[00:03:52]My eye did >> Syrian desert.

[00:05:52]So, we're just finishing the visit to the genocide memorial here on April 24th.

[00:05:59]Every year, they remember and commemorate what happened to the Armenians in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

[00:06:08]And so, I have been here, I think, every year for the last 5 years coming to this memorial to remember.

[00:06:18]And uh it's a long hike. Yeah, my feet are killing me. I shouldn't have worn high heels. But I was saying to Sarah, I was like, isn't it interesting that you know, during this time on the death march to Deir ez-Zor, there would have been many families such as ours with six children or or even, you know, more children who uh had to suffer in that march.

[00:06:47]I'm so tired.

[00:06:49]I'm tired, Mom. You're tired? We walked a long ways, didn't we? I'm tired.

[00:06:56]I know.

[00:06:59]I'm tired.

[00:07:04]We're taking a little break after a very long walk.

[00:07:08]Still so many people walking down from the memorial.