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Maggie
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Kris, you brought back memories from my childhood. I grew up in Khanaqueen, near Baquba, and the Assyrians were the minority in that town, even then. BY the time I was nine, I spoke fluent Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, and Assyrian, because otherwise you couldn't communicate with your neighbors. Many Assyrians came from Baghdad to our town so that my dad could help them with a job in the oild fields. And he did. Only they were so jealous of my parents, that when my dad went out of town on business trips, our Assyrian neighbors would try to scare my mother by tapping on our windows and doors in the night and run. For many nights they would do this to us, until one day my dad finally caught who was doing it. They were the very Assyrians that had begged him for jobs, and he happily obliged them. I remember the day we were leaving Khaniqueen and moving to America. As we came out of our house to get into the car, there were hundreds of Turks, Kurds, Armenians, and Arabs lined-up to say good bye to my dad. It took hours for them to say good bye because they were thanking him for the wonderful things he did for them and their children. Grown men were sobbing and we couldn't get away. When were finally on the road, I asked "what DID you do, dad?" My dad said, "nothing, I was just being a good human being". The drive from Khanaqueen to Baghdad is two and a half hours, and my mother still couldn't finish telling us all the things my dad had done for all the people in our town. We couldn't believe it. We never even knew it. He had done things no man would do today, and had risked his life and us, in the process. --------------------- |
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