Banner Commemorating Armenian Genocide Unfurled on Bay Bridge
April 3, 2017
A large, commemorative banner was unfurled Monday over the Treasure Island Tunnel, westbound Interstate 80, on the San Francisco Bay Bridge. (Photo: SF Gate)
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (SF Gate)””Drivers headed into the San Francisco over the Bay Bridge got a world history lesson without even asking Monday when a huge banner was displayed above the mouth of the Treasure Island Tunnel commemorating the 1915 Armenian Genocide. For the third consecutive year, the banner, measuring 70 inches long and ten-feet tall, was unfurled on the span about 9 a.m. to mark the 102nd anniversary of the genocide ”” a historical event that has yet to be recognized by many world leaders. The “genocide is very personal to us. We are grandchildren and great-grandchildren of genocide survivors,”
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