After Andranik’s story, a man named Vazgen interrupts, wanting to share his own experience. He recounts how, during the same period, he and two friends also traveled to Israel but joined the Palestinian army as Arab volunteers. Vazgen continues, describing how one day their Palestinian commander ordered them on a reconnaissance mission. The mission was to secretly infiltrate a dangerous high ground beyond a forest, where Israeli artillery and tanks were constantly shelling their positions, and sabotage the enemy’s artillery and tank. Vazgen and his friends crawled to the artillery, successfully planting explosives on both cannons. Moving further, they spotted a tank with no one around. Vazgen approached the tank, carefully placing an explosive on its tread in a concealed manner. As he crawled away, he suddenly froze upon hearing voices in Armenian coming from the gorge below. Shocked, he decided to disarm the explosive, thinking to himself, "The hell with the Israelis and Palestinians—I’m not going to kill Armenians". Vazgen then found a thick, white piece of cardboard. He quickly took out his pen, wrote a short note in Armenian, and placed it on the tank’s tread.
At the feast, everyone listened carefully and in amazement. Vazgen turned to Andranik and said, "I will write the same words I wrote on that cardboard 17 years ago". Andranik pulled out the very same piece of cardboard that had saved his and his brother’s lives 17 years ago. Together, at the same time, they placed the two pieces of cardboard on the table. The handwriting and the message were identical: "You owe your life to being Armenian."
P.S. This story is based on real events.
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