In regards to the recent articles concerning the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, I would like to say that it is to the everlasting shame of this government that it will not acknowledge what all reputable historians recognize as the first genocide of the 20th century. Our president promised before he was elected that he would officially recognize this shameful genocidal slaughter of the world’s oldest Christian nation. But it seems that placating his Muslim friends, the Turks who have escaped censure for their war crimes for over a century, is more important to him.