It wasn't but a couple days after I posted the photos of my masonry friends finishing the top of the wall lining the river that a huge storm hit the area. All the dirt they had piled up for their work unfortunately diverted the water coming down the road behind the wall.....and that whole section of the wall tipped over into the river. Like true construction people, they were back at it the next day, pulling the old wall out of the river and starting over.
I don't supposed William Faulkner is required reading in Armenian schools but the people surely embody one of his reflections on man: I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. After 600 years of being ruled by other conquering nations, one outstanding aspect of Armenia's national character is endurance. I have a feeling that over the next couple years Americans will have the opportunity, if that's the right word, to grow in this attribute as well.
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