Monte melkonian biography sample

Monte was born into a family of Armenians who miraculously survived through the genocide and forced expulsion of the Armenian population between 1915 and 1923. His father Charles passed on the memory of these events to his sons and even organized a family tour of the lost lands of Western Armenia.

This event played an important role in shaping the basic elements of Armenian identity for the curious American teenager. It was at this stage that the internal struggle between Americanism and Armenianness began. Personalities who changed the history of their people have always gone through this most difficult phase of inner transformation.

The father of Irish statehood, Eamon de Valera, who was born into a mixed Irish-Basque family in New York, the young socialist intellectual from Płońsk, Poland, David Green, who later became the Israeli statesman Ben-Gurion, the provincial Saxon rebel Otto Leopold, who would become Otto von Bismarck, the unifier of Germany and founder of the unified Ge