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#0, ASSYRIAN GREAT EMPIRE
Posted by EYADOOO on Sep-04-2001 at 03:45 AM

YEARS AGO THERE WAS A GREAT EMPIRE NAMED ASSYRIA, THAT EMPIRE WAS SO GREAT AND POWERFULL THAT THE WORLD ALWAYS FEARED IT, THE ASSYRIAN FLAG WAS WELL KNOWN AND ALL THOSE WHO WERE KNOWN AS ASSYRIANS WERE VERY RESPECTED, THE FIRST LAW IN THE WORLD WAS THE ASSYRIAN LAW BY THE GREATES HAMURABI, MANY YEARS AFTER WE FIND OURSELVES LOST, MANY OF US DONT EVEN KNOW THE HISTORY OF ASSYRIA LEAVE ALONE THE FACT THAT WE BARELY SPEAK IT OR WRITE IT, FEW MORE GENERATIONS DOWN THE ROAD OUR KIDS WILL NOT EVEN BE KNOWN AS ASSYRIAN, BECAUSE THEY WONT KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR, AND WHAT LANGUAGE ARE THEY SPEAKING.....
I AM A LEBANESE GUY, WHOS MOTHER IS ASSYRIAN, AND I TAKE PRIDE WHEN PPL ASK ME WHERE R U FROM, I ALWAYS SAY ASSYRIAN AND THEN LEBANESE, ASSYRIA STANDS FOR COURAGE POWER AND FEARLESS, WE DONT FEAR ANYTHING, NO ONE HAS POWER OVER US, AND OUR STATUES SHOW WHAT WE R ALL ABOUT...
BUT HOW CAN WE PASS THIS ON TO OUR KIDS, SCHOOL WE NEED TO UNITE AND DEVELOP AN ASSYRIAN SCHOOL WHERE IT WILL TEACH OUR KIDS THE HISTORY AND THE LANGUAGE..
JEWS ARABS JAPANESE CHINESE RUSSIANS ARMENIANS ALMOST EVER NATIONALITY HAS SCHOOLS IN THE STATES TO TEACH THIER KIDS, WHY CANT WE? WHY CANT WE THE NEW GENERATION OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE ACCOMPLISH WHAT THEY DID..
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IT STATED THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE WILL BE BACK AFTER IT ENDS, LETS TAKE THE FIRST STEP TO BRING IT BACK BY TEACHING OUR TRADITIONS TO OUR KIDS..
I STAND HERE WITH ALL MY RESPECT TO ALL OF YOU, HOPING THAT SOMEWHER IN THE BACK OF UR MIND SOMETHING WILL TRIGER AND ULL SEE MY POINT OF VIEW

SHLAMALOUK YOUR ASSYRIAN BY CHOICE FRIEND EYAD