Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Congressional Armenian Caucus, I rise today to recognize Armenia’s twenty-fifth Independence Day on September 21st. Both the United States and Armenia share the belief that remembering our countries’ heritages is critical to paving the path to tomorrow. In the first genocide of the 20th century, nearly 1.5 million Armenians perished at the hands of the Ottoman Empire. And, for much of the Twentieth Century, Armenia was under the brutal rule of