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Re: finishing the job my grandfather started.....
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Wednesday, December 18 2013, 20:31:59 (UTC)
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Thank you. Now I understand why so many men in my family were "camion" (truck) drivers, with only one or two doctors who studied in Tehran. It also sheds light on why my grandmother had us all baptized at the Roman Catholic Church, and sent my father and aunt to Armenian schools in Tehran, enabling them to get a decent education, learn to speak their grandmother's language of Armenian, in addition to English and Turkish. As a young "warrior", I used to hang a painted portrait of Malik Yaqu (no blood relations), next to a picture of Jesus on the wall of my teenage bedroom, among posters of the Doors, Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath (and the latest Playboy centerfold) -- my mother finally got rid of Malik Yaqu's portrait for which I resented her for years. She thought I was insane for wanting to visit Yaqu's son, Ismael, who was convicted for the murder of Mar Eshai Shimmun in San Jose in the mid-'70s in Morgan Hill, as I would angrily retort that she (Persians) had no honor, the man called the great Malik's son a "bronit kalba". There's a book I have at my aunt's, I brought it from Iran along with Malik Yaqu's portrait, the painting of Jesus and a copy of a letter supposedly signed by the Queen of England thanking the Assyrians for their service as the local gendarmes in Iraq as Levies. This book is in Surath and in it is a picture of my father as a young 7-year-old kid sitting next to my grandfather and Malik Yaqu, along with two or three English men in civilian clothing at my grandfather's home in either Tehran, or Ahwaz. Malik Yaqu had prepared to help my family (grandparents, father and aunt) to start a new life in Canada. He immediately changed his mind when my grandfather sent him a list of thirty or more other people he wanted to take along with him to North America. I only began to forgive my mother for getting rid of that portrait when I started reading on this forum a few years ago. Once in a while, I still get family members, and other Assyrians, trying to make me feel guilty about losing the Malik's portrait. Oh, well: Shit happens! And once again, thank you!



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