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Los Angeles: Reunion of Iraqi Homenetmen members of Baghdad, Mosul & Kirkuk “Video”

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By Wally Sarkeesian

Los Angeles: December 4th, 2016 former Iraqi Homenetmen members under sponsorship of Homenetmen USA Western Region organized a reunion event devoted to “Iraqi Homenetmen Past & Present” and appreciation to honor Iraqi
Homenetmen executive members. Iraqi Homenetmen was established in Baghdad, 1956 and expended to Mosul and
Kirkuk. During its more than 60 years of existence, Homenetmen has experienced trials and tribulations as well as maturity and growth. Main sports included within the various Homenetmen programs include:
football
basketball
volleyball
track and fields
cycling
Since its establishment in 1918-Homenetmen has played an essential role in helping to shape the character and leadership capabilities of generations of Armenian youth. Through its scouting and athletic programs Homenetmen has
preserved the Armenian spirit and addressed the needs of Armenian communities in the diaspora.

Homenetmen was founded in 1918 in Constantinople by Shavarsh Krissian, Hovhannes Hintliyan and Krikor Hagopian. The first Homenetmen Executive Committee was formed on December 16, 1918. Four Homenetmen chapters were
soon opened in various Constantinople neighborhoods.
Today, Homenetmen is a worldwide organization with over 25,000 members on five continents. These Homenetmen families are governed by a Central Executive Committee which includes representative members from the major continents. Through the years Homenetmen has sponsored numerous international athletic events and tournaments and has held scouting jamborees in Greece-Canada-France-Bulgaria-Armenia-and the United States.

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This penguin swims 5,000 miles every year for reunion with the man who saved his life

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penguin-and-manJoao cleaned the oil off the penguin’s feathers and fed him a daily diet of fish to build his strength. He named him Dindim.

After a week, he tried to release the penguin back into the sea. But, the bird wouldn’t leave. ‘He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared,’ Joao recalls.

And, just a few months later, Dindim was back. He spotted the fisherman on the beach one day and followed him home.

For the past five years, Dindim has spent eight months of the year with Joao and is believed to spend the rest of the time breeding off the coast of Argentina and Chile.

It’s thought he swims up to 5,000 miles each year to be reunited with the man who saved his life.

‘I love the penguin like it’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,’ Joao told Globo TV. ‘No one else is allowed to touch him. He pecks them if they do. He lays on my lap, lets me give him showers, allows me to feed him sardines and to pick him up.

‘Everyone said he wouldn’t return but he has been coming back to visit me for the past four years. He arrives in June and leaves to go home in February and every year he becomes more affectionate as he appears even happier to see me.’

Biologist Professor Krajewski, who interviewed the fisherman for Globo TV, told The Independent: ‘I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of his family and probably a penguin as well.

‘When he sees him he wags his tail like a dog and honks with delight.

And, just like that, the world seems a kinder place again.

Source: http://www.newspip.com/article/13910/This-penguin-swims-5000-miles-every-year-for-reunion-with-the-man-who-saved-his-life.html?rnd=0,7429621&ref=gm