Dear Governor Pataki:

As a descendant of Greek immigrant parents, I wish to thank you for your proclamation recognizing one of the heinous crimes of history and particularly of the past Century, the Genocide of the Greeks in Asia Minor, a sequence to the Turkish Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians, and Christians in general in Anatolia; and, as an American, I congratulate you for honoring America by exposing the truth about that heinous crime, thereby memorializing all those who suffered terrible deaths at the wishes and by the hands of their Turkish murderers.

Yours is the kind of political stature in America's legacy for the truth needed to restore America's credibility across the globe as the beacon of fairness and freedom that it was known to be.

May you continue your exemplary work as the Governor of the Statue of Freedom State of New York, and may you ascend to the national level for the benefit of our United States in returning it to its highly-deserving place of dignity and honor for all and by all.

Dean C. Lomis, Ph.D.
Newark, Delaware USA