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Jan 16,, 5 tweets, 2 min read
My grandpa turned 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ years old on Jan 12 and it was a blessing to get four generations of Ohanians together.
We had Armenian food for dinner at our home the next day and he regaled us with stories from winning a car in a church raffle (which he immediately sold to put toward college) to volunteering for WWII. His generation was built different and I'm grateful for their sacrifices.
To think of how far we came: my grandpa John Ohanian is the son of refugees, Armenian Genocide survivors, who were orphaned and started with nothing here in the US... His son built a small travel agency (retired this year) and his grandson built @reddit...
and who knows what great heights his great granddaughter will achieve. 💪
Oh and I asked Grandpa to do an AMA with me on Reddit 8 years ago that still holds up 👇 reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment…

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I also studied post WWII German history and the rigorous teaching of the Holocaust (not to mention the fact that there are memorials in every German city) is a great inspiration for how a society can embrace shame and become better for it.
Post reconstruction USA was essentially the opposite: no reparations, no Nuremberg trials, no shame, no memorials (but Confederate statues a few decades later just to be jerks) and instead the energy just moved to other ways to perpetuate the same systems (redlining, segregation)
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