As you travel west on Cuddy Valley Road, about 1/4 mile past Pinon Pines at Darling Road, you might notice a sign for camp AREV.  The name is an acronym/abbreviation for Armenian Evangelical. 

AREV has one of the nicest camp facilities in our area and improvments are scheduled to be in use by October of this year.  Local contractor Roland Mueller did much of the work and finished installing a large, glass steeple on one of the new buildings Wednesday morning.

Camp AREV is owned by the Armenian Evangelical Union; a coalition of Christian churches started by survivors of the genocide perpetrated by Turkish Muslims prior to 1920. Information on thie event is easy to find once you know to look for it. 

This reporter was never exposed to the tragic events that were an example/inspiration for Nazi crimes to follow: concentration camps, people herded into railroad cattle cars, complicit doctors that injected Armenian patients with poisons and disease, boat loads of children drowned in the Black Sea, women, children and elderly forced to walk the Syrian desert without food or water with the hope and expectation that they would die. 

When Armenians tried to defend themselves, they were called rebels and this was used as an excuse to attack villages and gun down thousands.  Camp AREV architect Nubar Aroyan said Hitler was confident he could commence with the Jewish Holocaust after seeing the tepid world response to the Armenian Genocide during World War I. The word "genocide" was coined as a result.

Germans are ashamed for the crimes of the Holocaust, Christians freely admit to the atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition.  But Turkish Muslims never admitted fault for the murder of over 1 million and near destruction of an entire race and culture.  Some tried to hold them to account but Islam has no remorse for the loss of infidels.