ABSTRACT
The men of Hadug Kordz acted in ways that they deemed were necessary for the future health of their people and perhaps for theirs as well. The men yelled their way through nights of slamming dice on tavloo boards, drinking occasional shots of liquor as well as many cups of Turkish coffee, and playing as if the future of Armenia depended on every move. For the Armenian diaspora, the immediate future of repercussions of the Genocide remains focused on Genocide recognition and restitution by the Turks, a hard task since Armenians were the victims twice over—first of genocide, and second of the classic "blame the victim" strategy. The distant future is even less clear. Like other small ethnic groups, Armenians fear assimilation, the loss of language, literature, music, food, all those diverse glories that each group brings to the human family.
