PHILADELPHIA - Armenian-Americans in Philadelphia gathered on Saturday to remember the Armenian Genocide after President Joe Biden formally recognized the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians.Hundreds congregated near the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum and marched to City Hall to honor ancestral loved ones who experienced the genocide first-hand. "My great-grandparents were survivors of the genocide and I wish that they were here right now to witness this because they definitely would have fallen apart.
They deserved this a long time ago," one person said.MORE: President Biden becomes first US president to formally recognize the Armenian GenocideIn 1915, 1.5 million Armenians were massacred at the hands of the Ottoman Empire..