Sam Kadorian, born 1907, was forced to walk to the Euphrates River when he was about 7 or 8. After he had camped at the river for awhile, Turkish gendarmes took all of the boys between the ages of 5 and 10. All of the children were thrown into a pile on the beach. The gendarmes then began to stab the pile with swords and bayonets. Kadorian survived because we was in the middle of the pile, keeping the swords from reaching him. He laid in the pile, covered in the blood of the other children, unable to cry in fear of being found by the gendarmes until he was found by his grandmother. Looking at Kadorian today you, can still see in his eyes the fear and sorrow he felt on that day.
After living through this, Kadorian probably lived the remainder of his childhood in fear of the Turks and probably suffers from survivors guilt.
The only question he has not answered is if he ever came across Turkish gendarmes after this event.
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