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Shant Kenderian was a schoolboy in Baghdad, growing up in the Armenian Christian community there. His parents divorced, and in 1978, at age 14, he chose to emigrate to America with his mother and brother. Just before his 17th birthday, he returned to visit his father in Baghdad, arriving on…
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In 1980, Shant Kenderian’s father was dying in Iraq, so he decided to fly there from the U.S. for one last visit. While there, the Iran-Iraq war broke out, and Saddam Hussein conscripted this U.S. citizen into the army like many unprepared Iraqis who were just bodies to throw in the way of Iranian troops. When Operation Desert Storm started, rather than retreating, Shant decided to make his way to the front lines to surrender to his fellow Americans.
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