ARMY OF SASUN, DAVIT, MHER, VARDAN

– I am an honoured mother of a soldier with 23 years of experience, – says Manushak Vardanyan.

– 23 years I am with the army. My elder son Sasun went to the army in 1993. Then came the turn of Davit. Davit returned, Mher went. And Vardan was recruited last year. So since 1993 I am a soldier’s mother. Army is my fifth son, who grew up in my eyes. No one was happy with achievements of the army as I was. If you want to know from where to where the army reached, ask me, my sleepless nights, my gray hair. Even in the years when my sons were at home, anyway, I have remained soldier’s mother, lived with concerns of the army.

In 1993 it was still war. In fact, my Sason went to the front. The Artsakh war won the Armenian mother. Artsakh war did not cause so much suffering to anyone but to the Armenian mother. In the morning you wake up and the first thought is that your son is in danger, in front of the enemy bullet. You eat (or rather, instinctively chew) and think that maybe your son is hungry. You sit in front of the stove, and your son with a gun stands at the post, in the cold, in the snow. You put your head on the pillow, and sleep would not come… soft bed just is depressing you…

How proud I was when commanders praised my son! I attribute these words to myself, because I brought up my sons. I did everything so they become honest and courageous people.

Biography of the army for me is divided into four stages: Sasun’s army, Davit’s army, Mher’s army and the current army – Vardan’s army – a strong, durable, solidarity and proud. The most important – proud army. Today, serving in the army is much more dangerous than during Mher, the enemy stepped up, I do not know what he wants. Not to say that at the heart I am quiet, but I am proud that we have such an army. I believe in the army. The army will not give the enemy a centimeter of land. Army – my son! The army of my sons!

Gayaneh Pogosyan