Mount Davidson

San Francisco's highest elevation... it was a beautiful, though VERY windy day. I decided to make the trek up as it is the day Armenians around the world commemorate the genocide committed by the Turkish authorities in the Ottoman Empire, which began on April 24th, 1915.

Atop Mount Davidson is a giant cross which, while originally built for other purposes, has at its base, a plaque of commemoration for the one-and-a-half million Armenians who perished (along with about a million Greeks and 500,000 Assyrians).

Samsung Galaxy S III

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