“Yeprem was born after three sisters, 7 years after my youngest daughter. He was a very smart child, the sisters loved him very much, and I almost did not feel that there was a little child in the house, he was taken care of by his sisters. He did not like to have his hands tied when he was a child. I was tying and the sisters were releasing his hands, he always loved freedom,” Karine Harutyunyan, the mother of Yeprem Harutyunyan, who died in the Artsakh war says.

Yeprem and his younger sister, Anna Khojoyan, were very connected, they were always together, and they played. “When we were fighting with each other or were offended, either I climbed on the roof, or he. When I went and saw that he was there, I came back with calmfully,” Anna says.

“He always called, ‘Mom, don’t worry, I don’t know why, but I his conscription to the army was hard for me. He was everything for me, the meaning of my life, my life, everything,” the mother says.

Yeprem was a tanker, and was appointed a senior mechanic for good service. He served in Talish.

“He said, ‘Mom, I did such a thing that I can’t say it on the phone now. I’ll return home and tell’ I said do not do it, I do not want anything, come home alone without any trouble.” Yeprem did not have time to tell his mother about his heroism.

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