Most people of conscience feel a frightful crime of unspeakable brutality was executed against more than a million Armenians when they were horrifically slaughtered by the old Turkish Ottoman Empire beginning especially in 1915.

We weren’t around then, of course, but some of our ancestors—it pains me to admit—unfortunately embraced the Turkish butchering orders, and helped themselves to the bountiful spoils.

In fairness, some Kurds (I wish there were many) refused to attack the helpless Armenians—and other brave souls rescued them (alas, not that many) from certain death.

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